option

English

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Etymology

From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɒpʃən/, SAMPA: /"QpS@n/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈɑpʃən/, SAMPA: /"ApS@n/

Noun

option (plural options)

1. One of the choices which can be made.
   • 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, BBC Sport:

     Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.

2. The freedom or right to choose.
3. (finance) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
4. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option")

Synonyms

• alternative
• choice
• possibility
• See also Wikisaurus:option

Hyponyms

• (finance) (A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset): American option, Bermudan option, European option, call option or call, put option or put, warrant

Derived terms

• optionable
• optional
• stock option

Related terms

• opt
• optimal
• optimise, optimize
• optimism
• optimist
• optimistic

Translations

one of the choices which can be made

Basque: aukera (eu) Catalan: opció (ca) f. Croatian: òpcija (hr) f. Czech: možnost (cs) f. Dutch: optie (nl) f. French: choix (fr) m., possibilité (fr) f.

Greek: επιλογή (el) (epilogí) f., προαίρεση (el) (proaíresi) f., εκλογή (el) (eklogí) f. Italian: opzione (it) Norwegian: valgmulighet (no) m. Portuguese: opção (pt) Spanish: opción (es) f. Swedish: alternativ (sv) n.

financial product

Chinese: Mandarin: 期权 (qīquán) Croatian: òpcija (hr) f.

Czech: opce (cs) f. Spanish: opción financiera (es), opciones (es) f.

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Esperanto: elekto, alternativo Finnish: vaihtoehto Urdu: murzi Hebrew: אפשרות (efshārut) f., אופציה (optsiā) f.

Interlingua: option Swedish: val (sv), alternativ (sv), valmöjlighet (sv), option (sv) (handel)

Verb

option (third-person singular simple present options, present participle optioning, simple past and past participle optioned)

1. To purchase an option on something.

   The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.

External links

• option in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• option in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• potion

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Finnish

Noun

option

1. Genitive singular form of optio.

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French

Etymology

From Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”).

Noun

option f. (plural options)

1. option