OPT


Meaning of OPT in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

in

We are not committed to opting in by anything in either clause 2 or any later part of the treaty.

I recoil at the idea of opting in as strongly as I hurt at the implications of opting out.

instead

They may instead opt for a production, product or sales-orientation. 4.

That is like an obese person with unhealthy eating habits deciding against making dietary changes and opting instead for liposuction.

After obtaining her degree, she decided against teaching, opting instead for a career as a freelance translator.

Frequently, business writers ask questions and neglect to answer them, opting instead to provide related, yet loosely connected information.

But she refused to deal, opting instead to await the crown she believed was hers.

They can opt instead to send children to private schools.

out

Their attitude is seen as giving Third World nations a licence to opt out themselves.

I recoil at the idea of opting in as strongly as I hurt at the implications of opting out .

Those schemes do not represent opting out , as hospitals will remain within the National Health Service.

Also, any programme should allow people to opt out if they wish.

Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year.

People tend to opt out , criticize themselves, not accept compliments, not make decisions and feel frustrated.

Three other schools are to have ballots of parents on opting out , in response to regional rationalisation plans.

■ NOUN

authority

Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control.

There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum.

Schools and housing associations can opt out of local authority control.

It's opting out of local authority control.

The 1988 Housing Act, as we have seen, offered tenants the opportunity to opt out of local authority control.

control

Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control .

Hospitals that have chosen to opt out of health-authority control and become self-governing will start running their own affairs.

The government's already allowed seventeen hospitals to opt out of the control of their local health boards.

There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum.

Schools and housing associations can opt out of local authority control .

It's opting out of local authority control .

The 1988 Housing Act, as we have seen, offered tenants the opportunity to opt out of local authority control .

decision

Few or no other routes were available and so it was a most logical decision to opt for the sporting escape.

The decision to opt for sewage composting was made largely in order to reduce the need for water for flushing the toilet.

The decision to opt out of the requirement to scrummage changed the whole nature of the game.

Unfortunately, the decision to opt for smoothness rather than scruffiness, composure rather than gaucheness, is not an innocent choice.

people

Also, any programme should allow people to opt out if they wish.

The problem is that instead of getting angry and fighting back, so many people are opting out instead.

The aim is that those young people who opt for early leaving would themselves be substantial gainers.

Most people now opt for one of the textured nylons, such as Ardura, Cordura or Kodra.

There's a religious revival in card designs, but most people opt out for holly and robins.

The positive feature today is that more people now opt for a position in the middle.

Perhaps it's because so many people are opting not to bother.

The cracks in the moral edifice are visibly growing: people are beginning to opt out of its orthodoxies.

school

Many of those who feel they are achieving least, and are most disruptive in schools , would opt for early leaving.

There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum.

Some believe the school should opt out and reduce pupil numbers.

He said the Lib Dems would encourage school opting out but stop hospitals taking control of their own finances.

It also promises a new funding body as more schools chose to opt out.

student

The draft student charter would allow students to opt out of their associations and would constrain unions within the law on charitable status.

Honours students may opt to include two literature in translation courses in their curriculum.

■ VERB

allow

The draft student charter would allow students to opt out of their associations and would constrain unions within the law on charitable status.

Income transfers, in contrast, allow individuals to effectively opt out of the capitalistic process.

Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control.

Also, any programme should allow people to opt out if they wish.

Only large practices would be allowed to opt for the scheme.

choose

Hospitals that have chosen to opt out of health-authority control and become self-governing will start running their own affairs.

But it chose race, opting for diversity on the otherwise all-white business staff.

Clearly then, if the company is to choose one it should opt for the first.

It also promises a new funding body as more schools chose to opt out.

decide

After obtaining her degree, she decided against teaching, opting instead for a career as a freelance translator.

The two girls decide instead to opt for a frantic search for their long-lost father.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

After college, Ruffin opted for the Army over college.

When her parents divorced, Mary Ann opted to live with her father.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As against the classical, the serenely beautiful, Nietzsche was opting for the archaic.

For an additional £145 visitors can opt to vacate their hotel rooms for a two-night safari.

Suppose Holt's 6-year-old does opt out of school?

This does not mean opting out of positive training or the setting of limits.

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