other option

collocation in English

meaningsofotherandoption

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other
adjective
uk
/ˈʌð.ər/
us
/ˈʌð.ɚ/
different to what is usual or expected, and sometimes not ...
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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 ofotherandoptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofother option

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Theotheroptionis to accept the incomplete numeration, generate a complete tree structure, and output a whole sentence.
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To improve environmental performance, theotheroptionsuggested by the author is substituting other low carbon fuels for coal or using washed coal.
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In view of the defeasance threatened by this dilemma, the question arises of whether there may be anyotheroptionfor theism to take up.
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Disclosure and transparency were not systematically introduced, but rather, used only when there seemed to be nootheroption.
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Theotheroptionis to modify the penalty method so as to avoid illconditioning.
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They had come to live in the sites, because the authorities had left them nootheroption.
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Or, more generally, if 'nootheroption' secures the requisite majority: but for simplicity we will confine our discussion here to the two-option case.
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They privilege one option as the 'default' one that prevails if theotheroptiondoes not receive the requisite 'special majority'.
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Theotheroptionfor primarily elite women was to enter a convent and become a nun.
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Theotheroptionis that the payer can decide to share the risk of the learning process, to gain access to cost information.
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The reason, to repeat, is clear: the military regime had nootheroptionbut to rely on the large, already well-established capitalists.
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Others we managed to keep by proving there was nootheroptionthat would satisfy either the client or the building regulations.
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Theotheroptionis to assume that the with/against alternation is another case of filler alternation.
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Theotheroptionis to increase the use of primary resin but this strategy as shown earlier is not cost effective.
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More interestingly, by adopting restricted domain richness, we can see that the two conditions leave us with nootheroptionthan libertarianism.
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And, indeed, employers realise that their workers cannot be kept waiting for weeks without work, and they have nootheroptionthan to accept them leaving.
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Their treatment had been determined by the flip of a coin, and it might well be that they would have preferred theotheroption: getting the segmental mastectomy.
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Given that there is no doubt that explanation is veridical - you can't explain what isn't true - the onlyotheroptionis to deny that explanation is dissective.
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In a large proportion of cases, the parents eventually decide that they have nootheroptionbut to accept the person that the child has 'selected'.
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