default option

collocation in English

meaningsofdefaultandoption

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default
noun
uk
/dɪˈfɒlt/us
/dɪˈfɑːlt/
the thing that exists or happens if you do not change it intentionally by performing ...
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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 ofdefaultandoptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdefault option

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Thedefaultoptionhad clearly changed between these generations.
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If it is assumed that children resort to thisdefaultoption, an explanation can be given for why causative and anticausative errors occur.
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This also demonstrates that hierarchy is not thedefaultoptionfor states, even when they have the capabilities to insist on it.
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Subjects are sentence-internal referents and are favoured as thedefaultoptionbecause of their accessibility, order of mention, recency, and their salient thematic roles.
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The status quo is typically identified as thedefaultoption, but logically any option could be so designated.
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Against this, post-productivists tend to regard full-time work as a 'defaultoption' which can only be maintained in society by 'exerting labour market pressure'.
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Will is now considered thedefaultoptionbut, at the same time, is widely held to connote conditionality and modality.
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When individuals decide how to decide, thedefaultoptionis to select the most appropriate preconfigured problem-solving mode, given the characteristics of the task.
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And with the symmetrical version of that rule, we can do so in full confidence that no option will be arbitrarily privileged by being thedefaultoption.
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It is thedefaultoptioninto which we all relapse almost immediately.
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The sensible course is to work with industry on self-regulation—as we are doing—but to create a statutorydefaultoptionin case we need it.
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Secondly, the traditional and still generally preferreddefaultoptionof going to vote in person was withdrawn.
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Instead, the sensible course is to work with industry on self-regulation, while creating a statutorydefaultoption.
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Other parents said that there was a presumption in the system that state care was thedefaultoption, and that it was not open to criticism.
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Possibly this was the only plan that could be agreed on, or became thedefaultoptionwhen no plan was agreed.
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Thedefaultoptionis searching for all categories.
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However, a traditional control scheme is thedefaultoption.
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Thedefaultoptionis searching for all sections.
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The formula is not applied to all public expenditure, but is thedefaultoptionif no other decisions are made.
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