Usually means: Right to buy or sell.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. option: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. option: Merriam-Webster
  3. option, option: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. option: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. option: Collins English Dictionary
  6. option: Vocabulary.com
  7. Option, option: Wordnik
  8. option: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. option: Wiktionary
  10. option: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. option: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. option: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. option: Dictionary.com
  14. option: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. option: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. 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
  17. Option: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. option: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. option: Rhymezone
  20. Option (f), option, option (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. option: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. option: FreeDictionary.org
  23. option: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. option: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. option: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. option: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. option: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. option: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Derivatives (No longer online)
  9. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  10. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  11. OPTION: Accounting Glossary
  12. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  13. Option: bizterms.net
  14. Option: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  15. option: Glossary of research economics
  16. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  17. Option: Harvey Financial
  18. Option: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  19. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  20. Option: Moneyterms
  21. Option: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  22. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  23. Option: Investopedia
  24. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  25. Option: Securities Terminology
  26. Option (disambiguation), Option (finance), option: Legal dictionary
  27. Option (disambiguation), Option (finance), option: Financial dictionary
  28. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  29. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  30. Option: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  31. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  32. option: Finance-Glossary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. option: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Option (disambiguation), Option (finance), option: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Option (disambiguation), option: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. option: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The option, option: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Option: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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