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   option

   /ˈɒpʃn/

   noun

   • 1. a thing that is or may be chosen: "choose the cheapest options for supplying energy"
   • ▪ the freedom or right to choose something: "she was given the option of resigning or being dismissed"
   • ▪ a right to buy or sell a particular thing at a specified price within a set time: "Columbia Pictures has an option on the script"

   verb

   • 1. buy or sell an option on: "his second script will have been optioned by the time you read this"

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

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • O

     1

   • P

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   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • O

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   • N

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