OPTION meaning: Right to buy or sell

We found 74 dictionaries that define the word option:

General (30 matching dictionaries)

option: Merriam-Webster.com
option, option: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
option: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
option: Collins English Dictionary
option: Vocabulary.com
Option, option: Wordnik
option: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
option: Wiktionary
option: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
option: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
option: Infoplease Dictionary
option: Dictionary.com
option: Online Etymology Dictionary
option: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Option (aircraft purchasing), Option (baseball), Option (car magazine), Option (company), Option (filmmaking), Option (films), Option (finance), Option (law), Option (music magazine), Option: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Option: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
option: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
option: Rhymezone
Option (f), option, option (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
option: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
option: Free Dictionary
option: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
option: Dictionary/thesaurus
option: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (31 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
option: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
option: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
option: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
Derivatives (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
OPTION: Accounting Glossary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Option: bizterms.net
Option: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
option: Glossary of research economics
Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
Option: Harvey Financial
Option: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
Option: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
Option: Moneyterms
Option: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Option: Investopedia
Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
Option: Securities Terminology
Option (disambiguation), Option (finance), option: Legal dictionary
Option (disambiguation), Option (finance), option: Financial dictionary
Option: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
Option: WashingtonPost.com: Business
Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
option: Finance-Glossary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

option: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Webopedia (No longer online)
Option (disambiguation), Option (finance), option: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Option (disambiguation), option: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

option: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

The option, option: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)

Option: Dan's Poker
Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  One of a set of choices that can be made.
▸ noun:  The freedom or right to choose.
▸ noun:  (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
▸ noun:  (law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.
▸ verb:  To purchase an option on something.
▸ verb:  (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

Opposite:

obligation, necessity, requirement, mandate, compulsion

Types:

call, put, capped call, capped put, straddle, strangle, butterfly, condor, iron condor, more...

Phrases:

call option, stock option, put option, option button, option price, more...

Adjectives:

only, best, second, first, viable, third, local, attractive, preferred, last, latter

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