Definition of option

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Option (n.) 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..

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Adoptive :: Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language..
Proposer :: Proposer (n.) One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.
Refusal :: Refusal (n.) The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment..
Option :: Option (n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
Federalist :: Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington..
Adrogation :: Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.
Option :: Option (n.) A wishing; a wish.
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..
Lobby :: Lobby (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill..
Fee :: Fee (n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc..
Preoption :: Preoption (n.) Right of first choice.
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump..
Optional :: Optional (n.) See Elective, n..
Option :: Option (n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit..
Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..
Adopted :: Adopted (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word..
Option :: Option (n.) The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
Propose :: Propose (v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office..
Idea :: Idea (n.) A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development..
Volapukist :: Volapukist (n.) One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk..
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