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Alternative \Al*ter"na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.]

1. Offering a choice of two things.
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2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
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3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Alternative \Al*ter"na*tive\, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL.
alternativa.]

1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but
not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is
taken, the other must be left.
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There is something else than the mere alternative of
absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
--Burke.
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2. Either of two things or propositions offered to one's
choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only,
the two things are called alternatives.
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Having to choose between two alternatives, safety
and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).
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3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of
another.
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If this demand is refused the alternative is war.
--Lewis.
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With no alternative but death. --Longfellow.
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4. A choice between more than two things; one of several
things offered to choose among.
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My decided preference is for the fourth and last of
these alternatives. --Gladstone.
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alternative
adj 1: serving or used in place of another; "an alternative
plan" [syn: alternate, alternative, substitute]

2: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive
possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or
war"

3: pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life
style"
n 1: one of a number of things from which only one can be
chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other
alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse" [syn: option,
alternative, choice]
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alternativa

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Alternative
alternatief; keus; keuze

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Alternative
alternativa; intercorrência

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alternative [ɔːltəːnətiv]
abwechselnd; alternativ; andere Wahl; einander ausschließend; Mehrfachmöglichkeit

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alternative [ɔːltəːnətiv]
alternative

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alternative

alternatív
alternatíva
vagylagos
választás


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alternative
alternativa

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alternative [ɔːltəːnətiv]
alternativa, intercorrência

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alternative [ɔːltəːnətiv]
alternativ

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alternative [altɛrnativ]
Alternative

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alternative [altɛrnativ]
alternative; option

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alternative [altɛrnativ]
alternatief; keus; keuze

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ALTERNATIVE. The one or the other of two things. In contracts a party has
frequently the choice to perform one of several things, as, if he is bound
to pay one hundred dollars, or to deliver a horse, he has the alternative.
Vide Election; Obligation; Alternative.


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alternative

Mehrfachmöglichkeit f; andere Wahl f
alternative

abwechselnd adj
alternative

alternativ adj
alternative

einander ausschließend
alternative

Alternative f
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f
alternative; alternative choice; option
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102 Moby Thesaurus words for "alternative":
additional, agent, alternate, alternate choice, analogy, another,
attainable, backup, change, changeling, choice, comparison,
contingency, copy, counterfeit, deputy, different, discretion,
discretional, disjunctive, double, druthers, dummy, election,
elective, equal, equivalent, ersatz, escape clause, escape hatch,
exchange, exchangeable, fake, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter,
imitation, interchangeable, locum tenens, loophole, makeshift,
metaphor, metonymy, mock, next best thing, option, optional,
optionality, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pleasure,
possibility, possible choice, preference, pretext, provisional,
proxy, relief, replacement, replacing, representative, reserve,
reserves, ringer, saving clause, second string, secondary,
selection, sign, spare, spares, stand-in, stopgap, sub,
substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder,
supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, temporary, tentative,
third string, token, understudy, utility, utility player, variant,
vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, volitional,
voluntary, way of escape, way out, will and pleasure



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