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opt English

Meaning opt meaning

What does opt mean?
Definitions in simple English

opt Verb

— If you opt for something, you choose it instead of something else. With higher gas prices, more buyers are opting for smaller cars. I wanted to go with them, but opted instead to stay home. — If you opt out of something, you choose not to do it. You will continue to receive the email unless you opt out.

opt

— verb (= choose) select as an alternative over another I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant She opted for the job on the East coast

Synonyms opt synonyms

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opt English » English

choose elect pick out pick select prefer designate suggest show point out optimum motion mark manifest indicate display denote demonstrate connote cast one’s vote appoint vote in vote for vote to think of single out plunk for output transformer ordain optional optics name draw dial co-opt cast ballot assign adopt

OPT English » English

output transformer optimum optimized production technology optics

Topics opt topics

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Language and thought Want Decide, plan

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Conjugation opt conjugation

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opt · verb

Examples opt examples

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Movie subtitles

I'm trying to co-opt likely Santas for a photo shoot.
I have no choice but to opt for B, because only the hypothesis that history has meaning. allows me to go on living.
Traunitz and I opt for the mother.
I'll take a vote. You opt for the first or the second answer?
Outmaneuvered on all counts, I opt to change the rules.
In the twenty-first century, mankind became so happy that no one would opt for the tough profession of cosmonaut any more.
Anyone here want to opt out?
Pity you didn't opt for the starting price.
I can stand here watching you try to destroy everything I've ever wanted in my life wanting to smash your face with my fists because you won't even make the slightest effort to opt for happiness and still know I love you.
I don't opt for happiness.
I opt for happiness.
James Caan doesn't opt for happiness.
More adventurous guests, of course, can opt for our jungle river cruise or for a close-up look at our majestic.
Well, you know, as much fun as that was I've decided to opt for sanity.
If you're squeamish, you can opt out now.
Perhaps we should try something like that around here and opt for an early retirement?
Yeah, well, I thought I'd opt out, actually.
What they've done is co-opt the local mythology by using advanced technology like the replicator to convince the people that they're the two Sages spoken of in the poem.
Heat we shall co-opt.
I'll opt to tell you something.
She implied that many couples when they opt to have children they're motivated to celebrate their union.
Wow. If you opt for transplant surgery, that is your choice, but the hospital maintains a very strict policy with regard to cash patients.
If you co-opt local enforcement, the story could leak.
If your heart's not in it, feel free to opt out. I'll find someone else.
It's a good thing, you have decided to opt out yourself.
Nevertheless. I have no choice but to opt for B, because only the hypothesis that history has meaning. allows me to go on living.
It gives even non-believers an excuse to opt out.
Can I opt out?
If you opt for transplant surgery, that is your choice, but the hospital maintains a very strict policy with regard to cash patients.
What if Marks opt to testify or what?
I opt to stay off the radar.
If they were options, chances are we'd opt out.

News and current affairs

If President Bush then opts for regime change, Europe should not opt out.
Young people in the US who opt for it would see most of the traditional pension benefit replaced when they retire decades from now with proceeds from personal accounts that they would be free to allocate among a range of investments, including stocks.
On the other hand, these economies can opt for greater self-insurance.
Those who opt for terror always believe their cause is just.
An opinion poll in Israel shows that the majority of Israelis opt for democracy, but there is a downward trend there as well.
After WWII, America was able to use soft power resources and co-opt others into a set of alliances and institutions that lasted sixty years.
Will it choose a forward-looking, market-driven path? Or will it opt for a defensive, backward-looking, insular retreat?
At any rate, comprehensive opt-outs are better than long-lasting blockades and disintegration of the European project.
My sense is that politicians will opt for a weak variant of greater fiscal union, but that, ultimately they will fail to execute it for the eurozone as we know it today.
Today, it seems, the right to opt out or opt into an EU policy may be becoming a general rule.
Were the US to opt out of international law, the strongest symbol for a more equitable international system, it would progressively lose influence.
In the CRA, for example, members can opt out of providing support - and can request early repayment if a balance-of-payments need arises.
Some countries, like the United States and Australia, chose to opt out of its stringent demands; others, like Canada, Japan, and a raft of European states, pay lip service to its requirements but will essentially miss its targets.
People who are not paying attention and are just not active will simply remain in the plan, while those who want badly enough to opt out can do so by writing a letter.
Britain is already semi-detached - outside of Schengen and with opt-outs from the euro and many home-affairs matters (including asylum policy).
The discussion has thus turned to the possibility of providing the UK with a special status or allowing it to opt out of more EU provisions.
Instead, his successor, Naoto Kan, continues to believe that Japan can somehow opt out of history and a turbulent region.
Or will it opt for a defensive, backward-looking, insular retreat?
The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out.
People tend to opt for the standard (VHS, Windows, DVD) that they believe will come out on top, and thus contribute to that victory.
Instead, it is a simplified treaty replete with protocols, dispensations, and opt-out causes.
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