different between option vs opportunities

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p??n/

Noun

option (plural options)

1. One of a set of choices that can be made. [from the 19th c.]
2. The freedom or right to choose.
3. (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 the mid-18th c.]

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

• optionable
• optional
• option button
• stock option

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 the 20th c]

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

2. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.
   • 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy

     The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

Further reading

• option in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• option in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• potion

Finnish

Noun

option

1. Genitive singular form of optio.

Anagrams

• opinto, opinto-

French

Etymology

From Latin opti? (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from opt? (“I choose, select”).

Pronunciation

Noun

option f (plural options)

1. option

Further reading

• “option” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ä'p?r-to?o?n?-t?z, IPA^(key): /??p??tun?tiz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p.??tju?.n?.tiz/
• Hyphenation: op?por?tu?ni?ties

Noun

opportunities

1. plural of opportunity