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October 06, 2007

Opt for

opt for (verb) - (formal) choose

when buying opt for
subscribers can opt for
users can opt for
decided to opt for

whatever you opt for
will be able to opt for
may opt for
could opt for
will almost certainly opt for
opt for something less formal

might be expected to opt for
opt for democracy
opt for voluntarily
opt for whatever the latest fad is
opt for a similar idea to
opt for computerisation
opt for a product launch date
should have been notified if you opted for this
opt for relocation


Example sentences:

* "Why have you opted for a relatively modestly sized premises rather than a larger exhibition area?"

* They opted for a quiet Friday evening at home.

* So far few of the accident victims have opted for counselling.

* "Other women opt for husbands and babies."

* "I mean either they opt for a family, or they opt for a job."

* The game TV Sports Boxing is playable if you opt for the management side of the game and simply let the computer fight for you.

* If we offer computer training during work hours more workers may opt for these courses voluntarily.

* When buying a new car opt for a smaller vehicle which consumes less fuel.

* Never opt for regular employment with that company, the former employee advised.

* It's too easy to opt for whatever the latest fad is.

* "But Anne is unlikely to wear white and will almost certainly opt for something less formal than a traditional wedding gown for the ceremony at Crathie Church near Balmoral."

* Employees may opt for greater health benefits even if they have to pay the difference themselves.

* "There are two basic designs, and if you are troubled by hand or wrist ailments it is probably best to opt for the sliding type of catch which can be operated by your thumb."

* "Financial security, a reluctance to move to a new employer, and proximity to the statutory pension age, coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working, led them to opt for early retirement."

* To gain an audience the writer opted for more sensationalist subject rather than more traditional subject matter.

* "Users can then opt for a modem connection and subscription to other information services as they wish."

* "Whatever shoe style you opt for, look for simplicity and minimal design."

In her career she decided to opt for medicine rather than the stage.

* "Employees will be able to opt for a transfer value or to have their accrued pension entitlements converted into deferred pensions which will be calculated in accordance with the current schemes."

* "If you have the possibility of both services in a kitchen, you could opt for a gas cook top and an electric oven; or vice versa; or a mixture of both gas and electric plates to hedge bets should anything go wrong with one or other service, or to take advantage of both sorts of energy for different cooking needs (slow simmering; fast boiling etc.)"

* "At times of high wages or low food prices, out-workers could opt for more leisure, but in times of slack trade they might well find themselves unable to get enough work to compensate for falling rates."

* "Those in working-class jobs and those with no jobs at all might be expected to opt for a party that offers some degree of social change and appears more empathic toward the" have-nots" than toward the" haves."

* T"he commission opted for policies which are disastrous for professional family farms, expensive for taxpayers, unlikely to remove surplus production, and bad for the countryside."

* "If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death."

* "You should have been notified by your employer if you opted for this."

* "She added that the number of people who opted for cremation was increasing although there was still a section of society to whom cremation was unthinkable."

* One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this, where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones, from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy crunch.

* "The athletic Slim Jim Phantom opted for the essentially rockabilly/skiffle method of playing drums standing up."

* "They also purchased new and larger premises and opted for computerisation, all of which was costly."

* "And in other administrative areas, such as personnel and accounts, most of the supervisory and long-term experienced people opted for relocation."

* "He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer, a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness."

* The company has now opted for November 10th as the date for its next series of workstation and technology launches.


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