option

Definitions


[ˈɒpʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a thing that is or may be chosen
(e.g: choose the cheapest options for supplying energy)


Phrases:
- keep one's options open
- not be an option

Origin:
mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin optio(n-), from the stem of optare ‘choose’. The verb dates from the 1930s


[ˈɒpʃn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- buy or sell an option on
(e.g: his second script will have been optioned by the time you read this)


Phrases:
- keep one's options open
- not be an option

Origin:
mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin optio(n-), from the stem of optare ‘choose’. The verb dates from the 1930s




definition by Oxford Dictionaries