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Answer for the clue "Work on it ineptly for choice ", 6 letters:
option

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Word definitions for option in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One of the choices which can be made. (from the 19th c) vb. To purchase an option on something. (from the 20th c)

Usage examples of option.

The plan to evacuate the Tenuans to the Abesse was no longer the best of options.

Then, on the right, you add a column of the actional options you think might satisfy each of them.

Though Catholic adoption services took considerable care in the placement of children, they were not pointlessly slow and obstructive, as were public agencies, especially when the would-be adopters were solid members of the community like Hatch and Lindsey, and when the adoptee was a disabled child with no option except continued institutionalization.

I decided on the journey here that if Lady Agatine was not to be allowed what I may call Foster Mother-Right, then I would place an option before the Council that clearly favors her Blood Mother-Right.

If she pressed it three times, the two agents in the airmobile parked a mile down the road from the front gate would arrive in under half a minute, but that option was for use only if she got into real trouble.

However, as Ament suggested, perhaps a truly superior ruler would rise above such a temptation, no matter how justifiable, and pursue other options before resorting to something as vast and terrible as Morning Star.

Wingate is in touch with the Chinese in Yunnan, that the communications in Upper Burma have been improved as far as possible, and that we have a free option where to strike next amphibiously, having regard to the reactions from the enemy, which by then will have been apparent.

In terms of abilities and options, it resembled an anencephalic infant.

I met him later in a bar and made a gay remark Anent an ancient miner and an option on the Ark.

A test to reveal overproduction of a protein found in plaque might expose early signs of atherosclerosis, when better options exist for treating it.

I can promise the Grand Ayatollah will not be in favor of the latter option.

You were absolutely right, and I was a blunderhead not to consider other options.

But she knew her best option was relying on judgment, so she made a cradle with her hands and boc him up to the window frame.

Miss Hyacinth Anastasia Wallace, the one girl I thought had friend potential, turned out to be a Manhattan celebutante hoping to gain credibility by slumming at Pineville High for a marking period or two, then writing a book about it, which was optioned by Miramax before she completed the spell check on the last draft, and will be available in stores nationwide just in time for Christmas.

Other administration officials would assure the press that we have not yet made a decision to invade and that the buildup of forces is intended to give the president a range of options, from coercing Saddam to comply with a new containment regime up to and including an invasion if that became necessary.