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• a thing that is or may be chosen.

• "choose the cheapest options for supplying energy"

Similar: choice, alternative, recourse, possibility, course of action, freedom of choice, power to choose, right to choose, bet,

• buy or sell an option on.

• "his second script will have been optioned by the time you read this"

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

• not commit oneself.
"he aims to keep his options open by also trying for the export market"

• not be feasible.
"travelling by road is not an option here"