option

English Online Dictionary. What means option‎? What does option mean?

English

Etymology

From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”). Equivalent to opt +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒpʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpʃən/

Noun

option (plural options)

1. One of a set of choices that can be made. [from 19th c.]
2. The freedom or right to choose.
4. (finance, law) 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. [from mid-18th c.]
5. (law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• (finance) (A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset): derivative

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

Related terms

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

Translations

Verb

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

1. To purchase an option on something. [from 20th c.]

2. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

Further reading

• “option”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “option”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• potion

Finnish

Noun

option

1. genitive singular of optio

Anagrams

• opinto, opinto-

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin optiōnem (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“to choose, select”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔp.sjɔ̃/

Noun

option f (plural options)

1. option

Further reading

• “option”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.