promising option

collocation in English

meaningsofpromisingandoption

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promising
adjective
uk
/ˈprɒm.ɪ.sɪŋ/us
/ˈprɑː.mɪ.sɪŋ/
Something that is promising shows signs that it is going to be successful ...
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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 ofpromisingandoptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpromising option

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Apromisingoptionis the use of micromotors in positioning units.
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Flexible employment has been seen as apromisingoptionfor older people who need or wish to remain in paid work.
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Onepromisingoptionis the use of gene therapy to limit the extent of nerve damage.
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A morepromisingoptionis to relate the gap to the availability of concessional financing necessary in order to overcome the market failure caused by non-internalized externalities.
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Safeguard cards look to be the mostpromisingoption.
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In view of that, we do not believe that diverting savings into a compensation fund is a particularlypromisingoption.
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Cross-compliance policies, linking farm program benefits with conservation requirements, seem to offer promising options.
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We conclude by observing that if both per capita resource demand and population are examined more even-handedly, some promising options for conservation of wild living resources may emerge.
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Wave energy is one of the less promising options.
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A workshop was held in 2006 to establish which are the most promising options.
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After the list of possible options is made, parties should try with the process of evaluation so to find the most promising options.
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He picked sports, music, painting, and writing as the most promising options for the kind of person he was: an ambitious man of 25 with no higher education.
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