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Option

noun

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.

One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen. Synonyms: alternative, choice. "There no other alternative" , "My only choice is to refuse"

The act of choosing or selecting. Synonyms: choice, pick, selection. "You can take your pick"

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... of meditation in all the vidyas which refer to the highest Brahman, are Brahman viewed as having qualities, and the fruit of all those meditations. For this reason the author of the Sutras declares that there is option among the different vidyas—cp. Ve. Su. III, 3, II; III., 3, 59. In the same way the Vakyakara teaches that the qualified Brahman only is the object of meditation, and that there is option of vidyas; where he says ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... representing the average amount of luxury in this respect, and at the average amount of cost. The furniture and the fittings up of these rooms cost me about twenty-five guineas; for the Oxford rule is, that if you take the rooms (which is at your own option), in that case, you third the furniture and the embellishments—that is, you succeed to the total cost diminished by one third. You pay, therefore, two guineas out of each three to your immediate predecessor. But, as he also may have succeeded to the ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... a life, or a heavy payment by the murderer or his relatives at the option of the murdered man's relatives. This payment was often so heavy as absolutely to strip the murderer ...

— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell

... of prohibition is what is known as "local option," where the question is submitted to each community, whether the liquor traffic shall be legalized or suppressed by public authority. Of late years friends of our cause have fallen into the sad mistake of directing their main assaults upon liquor selling instead of keeping ...

— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

... tremendous," he said. "It will be shown that the entire north is inimical to our company, and the government will withdraw our option. We will be ruined. Our stockholders ...

— Flower of the North • James Oliver Curwood

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