sensible option
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsensibleandoption
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sensible
adjective
uk/ˈsen.sə.bəl/us/ˈsen.sə.bəl/
based on or acting on good judgment and practical ideas ...
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option
noun
uk/ˈɒp.ʃən/us/ˈɑːp.ʃən/
one thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make ...
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(Definition ofsensibleandoptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The exchange rate mechanism offers asensibleoptionfor smaller currencies.
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That is the onlysensibleoption, probably the only realistic option, left in the world into which we seem to have already moved.
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The latter category may include cases that are not exceptional basic need but where replacement is considered to be the mostsensibleoption.
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I chose the mostsensibleoptionon a range of considerations.
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The onlysensibleoption—the one that we have adopted—is now the one least likely to be accepted, because we are there already.
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For all these reasons we have decided that permanent legislation is not asensibleoption.
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However, the committee thought it wrong to have no focused system for checking whether the mostsensibleoptionis being pursued in each case.
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That structure is not driven by ideology; it just happens to be the mostsensibleoption.
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I do not believe that that is asensibleoption.
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We need to make it clear to the public that personal pensions are an entirelysensibleoptionfor many people.
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And, once stakeholder pensions are up and running, we will reshape the system to make private-funded pensions the onlysensibleoptionfor those above £9,000.
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Combating inflation when there is no inflation is not asensibleoptionin monetary terms, whereas avoiding deflationary trends is.
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Whether this is asensibleoptionor will simply lead to new offences remains to be seen.
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That is a coherent andsensibleoption, now liable to a £1,000 penalty.
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We all accept that work is not asensibleoptionfor many people, so we want a better service for all our customers.
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It would be cruel to take it away and put it in someone's front lounge, and it is not asensibleoption.
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First, we must make it clear to the public that personal pensions are asensibleoptionfor many people.
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In fact, in some cases that might be an environmentallysensibleoption.
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The logical andsensibleoption—of drawing members from the lower tier—has one enormous benefit.
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However, in other instances non-custodial sentences are not the soft option but thesensibleoption.
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