Crossword clues for opt
opt
- Make one's decision
- Choose, with 'for'
- ___ in (decide to participate)
- __ for (choose)
- Settle on, with "for"
- Pick or choose
- Participate, with "in"
- Choose "yes," e.g
- Check "yes," e.g
- Be choosy
- __-out clause
- ___ out (decline to participate)
- ___ out (choose not to participate)
- ___ for (decide upon)
- Word with ''out'' and ''for''
- Take a pick
- Stop wavering
- Settle on (with "for")
- Select one
- Select (with "for")
- Pick an alternative
- Pick a card, e.g
- Pick (with "for")
- Go for, with "for"
- Drop (out)
- Don't participate, with "out"
- Decide (for)
- Choose (with "for")
- Accept, with "in"
- ___ out (remove oneself from an email list)
- ___ out (quit)
- ___ out (decline to take part in)
- ___ in (voluntarily participate)
- ___ for (select)
- Word from the Latin for "wish for"
- Word from the French for "choose"
- Withdraw (with ''out'')
- Want out, with "out"
- Vote, say
- Vote yes or no
- Unsubscribe to a mailing list, with "out"
- Turn it down, with "out"
- Stop dilly-dallying
- Show favor (for)
- Select, ... for
- Put "X" in a box
- Prefer (to)
- Pick, with 'for'
- Participate, with ''in''
- Not participate, with "out"
- Not join, with "out"
- Not dither
- Indicate a preference
- Go one way rather than another
- Get off the colloquial fence
- Get (out), or (in)
- For (choose)
- Do some picking
- Decide to quit, with "out"
- Decide to be involved (in)
- Decide (to do)
- Choose, with ''for''
- Choose citizenship
- Check a box, say
- Check a box (for)
- Call tails, for example
- Call tails, e.g
- Act decisively
- -- for (choose)
- ___-in (like some mailing lists)
- ____ for (pick)
- ___ out of (decide to skip)
- ___ out of (choose not to participate)
- ___ out (stop subscribing)
- ___ out (stop following)
- ___ out (decide not to participate)
- ___ in (choose to participate)
- __ out (don't participate)
- __ in (choose to participate)
- Vote (for)
- _____ out of (reject)
- Pick, with "for"
- Make a decision (to)
- Choose (to)
- Get off the fence?
- Select, with "for"
- Go (for)
- Stop waffling
- Decide to leave, with "out"
- Make up one's mind
- Check one
- Withdraw, with "out"
- Go one way or the other
- Elect (to)
- Get off the fence, so to speak
- Elect, with "for"
- Not req.
- Cast one's vote
- Be decisive
- Go with, with "for"
- Co-___
- Decline, with "out of"
- Make a choice, with 'for'
- Choose, with "to"
- Take your pick
- Make a selection, with "for"
- Decide (to)
- Say no, with "out"
- With 30-Down, kind of clause
- Make a pick
- Show a preference (for)
- Quit, with "out"
- Decide to take, with "for"
- ___-out clauses
- Reject, with "out of"
- Check the box (for)
- Choose, with "for"
- Choose to participate, with "in"
- ___-in clause
- Decide not to join, with "out"
- Go for it, with "in"
- ___ out (email list selection)
- Decide upon
- Decide on, with 'for'
- Prefer, with "for"
- Decide in favor of, with "for"
- Take one's pick
- Decide on citizenship
- Eliminate the alternatives
- "x" a box, say
- Go for flipping instruction to cycle
- Make a choice and compete regularly
- Choose to put up around centre of Newport
- Select as a preferable alternative
- Not req
- Plump and old, needing exercise?
- Choice word
- Make up your mind
- Road reversal
- Make a call
- ___ out (withdraw)
- Lean toward
- Take one side
- Pick a card, say
- Withdraw (with "out")
- Select, with 'for'
- Mark a ballot
- Bow (out)
- Be choosy?
- Back (out)
- Decline, with "out"
- ___ for (choose)
- Pull (out)
- Choose (for)
- Make the call
- ___ out (decline)
- Stop shilly-shallying
- Select, with ''for''
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
opt
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
opt
1877, from French opter "to choose" (16c.), from Latin optare "choose, desire" (see option). To opt out is attested from 1922. Related: Opted; opting.
Wiktionary
opt
vb. (context intransitive English) To choose; to select.
WordNet
Wikipedia
OPT (disambiguation)
OPT may stand for:
- Ocean Power Technologies, a US owned renewable energy company, constructing power generation devices including buoys, which extract energy from ocean waves / ( Wave Power)..
- Operation Prime Time, a consortium of TV Stations to provide alternative prime time programming
- Optional Practical Training, a period during which university students with an F-1 are permitted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to work for one year on a student visa without needing an H-1B.
- Optimum Population Trust, now known as Population Matters, a UK charity concerned with the impact of population growth on the natural environment.
- Optical Projection Tomography, a form of tomographic tissue imaging used in biomedical research.
- Office des Postes et Telecommunications, the national telecommunication companies of several francophone areas, such as Benin, French Polynesia and New Caledonia..
- Occupied Palestinian territories, another name for the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Usage examples of "opt".
In fact, many of my clients have removed the 24hour emergency message from their yellow page advertising, opting for simpler, well-positioned messages.
As she trailed her gaze over the button-fly jeans, she wished she had opted for a baggier pair.
Suitably rehearsed, the groups converge in Donnybrook, most opting for the forecourt of the Shell garage and the surrounding premises to join up with each other.
The woman behind the counter offered a donut off the rack, but a fresh batch was coming out of the fryer, so Pollard opted to wait.
But it seemed just a little bit too far to drive at that time of day, so I opted to go instead to Eger, on the western edge of the Biikks, rather than Lillafured, farther east.
Due to this fetishistic emphasis, the drag queen is markedly different from the cosmetic CD, who generally opts for a more realistic interpretation of feminine dress.
But instead of studying with the great Gaon of Vilna, the natural choice for a talmudic genius, the young Russian scholar opted for the mystical Maggid of Mezerich.
I opted for a sofa in the lobby rather than a ringside seat and was getting settled in when Lieutenant Henbit stomped out of the dining room.
I can tell, opted to eschew the dress code by wearing shorts, flip - flops, and, in the case of Kurt, the keyboardist, no shirt.
I can tell, opted to eschew the dress code by wearing shorts, flip-flops, and, in the case of Kurt, the keyboardist, no shirt.
Corellian passport holders now have forty-eight hours to report to their local CSF precinct and opt for repatriation or face internment.
She had opted, sensibly she was sure, to concentrate on leaving her mark on Beaux Reve instead.
Bridget Sulzer, Ivy and Dick Terblanche, Aletta Gous, Marisa Kgosana, Mark Liebowitz, Sipho Mokoena-any of those long time associates of my mother and father who were still at large, neither in jail, in exile, nor opted out, or even the new frequenters who from time to time were attracted into that house.
Even without the brandy he suspected he would have opted for bed, being just too dog-tired.
Again, Sabrina opted to share her 1w with Maura, this time in the hope that she could tase it.