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Option vs. Optional — What's the Difference?

Option vs. Optional — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Option and Optional

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Option

A thing that is or may be chosen
Choose the cheapest options for supplying energy

Optional

Left to choice; not compulsory or automatic.

Option

Buy or sell an option on
His second script will have been optioned by the time you read this

Optional

Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
On that beach clothing is entirely optional.

Option

The act of choosing; choice
Her option was to quit school and start her own business.
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Optional

Something that is not compulsory, especially part of an academic course.

Option

The power or freedom to choose
We have the option of driving or taking the train.

Optional

In various programming languages, a kind of variable that is assigned a specific data type but may or may not hold an actual value.

Option

The right, usually obtained for a fee, to buy or sell an asset within a specified time at a set price.

Optional

Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; allowed but not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay.
If to the former the movement was not optional, it was the same that the latter chose when it was optional.
Original writs are either optional or peremptory.

Option

A contract or financial instrument granting such a right
A stock option.

Optional

Possible but not necessary; left to personal choice

Option

The right to make a movie adaptation of a literary work or play
A movie studio that purchased an option on a book.

Option

(Baseball) The right of a major-league team to transfer a player to a minor-league team while being able to recall the player within a specified period.

Option

Something chosen or available as a choice.

Option

An item or feature that may be chosen to replace or enhance standard equipment, as in a car.

Option

(Football) An offensive play in which a back, usually the quarterback, decides during the play whether to run with the ball, throw a pass, or make a lateral, depending on the actions of the defense.

Option

To acquire or grant an option on
"had optioned for a film several short stories about two policemen" (Barbara Goldsmith).

Option

(Baseball) To transfer (a major-league player) to a minor-league club on option.

Option

One of a set of choices that can be made.

Option

The freedom or right to choose.

Option

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.

Option

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.

Option

To purchase an option on something.
The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.

Option

To configure, by setting an option.

Option

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
There is an option left to the United States of America, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable, as a nation.

Option

The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile.

Option

A wishing; a wish.

Option

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.

Option

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.

Option

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

Option

One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;
What option did I have?
There no other alternative
My only choice is to refuse

Option

The act of choosing or selecting;
Your choice of colors was unfortunate
You can take your pick

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