choice
- noun
- /tʃɔɪs/
- You have no choice but to trust me.
- make a choice
- given a choice
- an informed choice
You explore it and make your choice, not theirs.
- You explore it and make your choice, not theirs.
- Those are your three choices, so choose wisely.
- Again, this is your car, your choice, your business.
- I think investing in a fund is a great choice so.
- Gratitude is a choice we all have to make.
- It's me making the choice to to do it.
- You, you've got no choice isn't the most exciting pitch.
- Yeah, I'm not loving our choices at that level.
- We make terrible choices and we live with regrets.
- So it's just an active choice to be present.
- That was the choice for a new country.
- So I think that actually that choice to end things.
Examples
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We all have the choice to craft our happiness.
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The choice was mine.
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Again, this is your car, your choice, your business.
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But you do still have some choice within the situation.
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At the heart of that choice is a simple question.
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I think that people who have a choice will not rush back.
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This is all about your choice and what's good for you.
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If becoming an author is on your horizon, you have more choices than ever before.
Academic text (2011) -
Washington will have no choice but to work with whoever comes to power in Cairo.
Academic text (2011) -
You have many options, but your final choice will affect your future.
Synonyms
A choice made after thinking about different options
A choice between two or more things
One of several choices you can pick
A person or thing chosen from a group
The person or thing chosen for a specific purpose
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Idioms
Compounds
Of questions that give several answer choices for you to pick the correct one
- Jargon
A baseball play where a player tries to put out a runner trying to advance, letting the batter reach first
- Formal
A decision about medical care when a person is near death, whether to continue life-saving treatment or focus on comfort
A belief that women's personal choices are the main way to get power and freedom rather than change in society
A small striped fish that lives near coasts from Florida to Brazil and in the Gulf of Mexico
How Decisive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Choice comes from the old English verb choose, once written ceosan, which meant 'to pick'. So a choice is simply the act of picking or the thing you pick.