OPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opt mean? 

• OPT (verb)
  The verb OPT has 1 sense:

1. select as an alternative over another

  Familiarity information: OPT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they opt    ... he / she / it opts   
Past simple: opted   
Past participle: opted   
-ing form: opting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Select as an alternative over another

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

choose; opt; prefer

Context example:

She opted for the job on the East coast

"Opt" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "opt"):

cop out; opt out (choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

optative (indicating an option or wish)

option (the act of choosing or selecting)

 Context examples 

You may opt to go to a foreign city that is new to you, one filled with old, historical landmarks, made even more beautiful by having several landmark buildings worn through the ages.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The results reinforce the need for public policies to encourage the use of biofuels, as they clearly show that the public lose in health what they save at the pump when opting for gasoline.

(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)

The twelfth house is also the house of healing, so you might opt to go into therapy to talk over an event or relationship where you feel stuck and unable to move forward.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If the overage was not exorbitant, the photographer would opt to cover it—and later win awards for the work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Travel is also a theme of this part of your chart, your third house, and with so many planets stacked there, it would be hard to believe you would opt to stay home.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Or you may opt into what the airlines call an open-jaw flight, where you fly to one city and return from another, flying between the two, making for three trips.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Alternatively, you may opt to invest in a house or condo, rent a vacation home, or take on a major renovation of your present space.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You can always opt to take a course in writing, editing, or any of the other communication arts—it would be a good idea that would pay you dividends.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)