Option vs. Alternative
Optionnoun
One of a set of choices that can be made.
Optionnoun
The freedom or right to choose.
Optionnoun
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.
Optionnoun
(graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
Optionverb
To purchase an option on something.
Optionverb
To configure, by setting an option.
Optionnoun
The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
Optionnoun
The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
Optionnoun
A wishing; a wish.
Optionnoun
A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; - annulled by Parliament in 1845.
Optionnoun
A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit; also, the contract giving that privelege; as, an option to buy a stock at a given price; to exercise an option.
Optionnoun
the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
Optionnoun
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;
Optionnoun
the act of choosing or selecting;
Optionnoun
a thing that is or may be chosen
Optionnoun
the freedom or right to choose something
Optionnoun
a right to buy or sell a particular thing at a specified price within a set time
Optionverb
buy or sell an option on
Alternativeadjective
Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
Alternativeadjective
Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
Alternativeadjective
Other; different from something else.
Alternativeadjective
Alternate, reciprocal.
Alternativenoun
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
Alternativenoun
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
Alternativenoun
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
Alternativeadjective
Offering a choice of two things.
Alternativeadjective
Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
Alternativeadjective
Alternate; reciprocal.
Alternativenoun
An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
Alternativenoun
Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
Alternativenoun
The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
Alternativenoun
A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
Alternativenoun
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;
Alternativeadjective
allowing a choice;
Alternativeadjective
necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities;
Alternativeadjective
pertaining to unconventional choices;
Alternativeadjective
(of one or more things) available as another possibility or choice
Alternativeadjective
(of two things) mutually exclusive
Alternativeadjective
relating to activities that depart from or challenge traditional norms
Alternativenoun
one of two or more available possibilities
