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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
optional
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
optional extras (=something that you can choose to have or not)
▪ Tinted windows and a sunroof are optional extras.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
extra
▪ Most of the systems offer optional extras.
▪ Theories are not optional extras in science.
▪ Cruising chutes and Windsurfers are available as optional extras on some yachts.
▪ Made to measure in glass fibre with toughened glass roof and sides, optional extras include ventilation and double glazing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Attendance at the meeting is optional.
▪ General Studies is optional for sixth-form students.
▪ The holiday price includes entertainment in the evenings, and there are optional excursions on offer every day.
▪ You don't have to do French - it's optional.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All freshmen who attend optional orientation sessions receive information on date rape.
▪ At the same time optional accessories, such as cornices, light pelmets and plinths, could also be changed.
▪ If they wish, students can do an optional dissertation, and pick up word-processing and other computer skills.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Optional

Optional \Op"tion*al\, a. Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; allowed but not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. -- n. See Elective, n.

If to the former the movement was not optional, it was the same that the latter chose when it was optional.
--Palfrey.

Original writs are either optional or peremptory.
--Blackstone.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
optional

1765, from option + -al (1).

Wiktionary
optional

a. Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.

WordNet
optional

adj. possible but not necessary; left to personal choice [ant: obligatory]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "optional".

France by the law on optional arbitration, and in England by the Conciliation Act of 1896.

Large black hairs growing out of the warts were preferred but still optional, no one ever accused the people of Galder of being inflexible.

Add the optional almonds and each serving has 19 grams of carbohydrates and 5 grams of fiber, for a total of 14 grams of usable carbs and 3 grams of protein.

The cauliflower rice is optional with this, but it takes very little extra time, adds only 1 gram of extra carbs to a serving, and makes this seem more like a meal.

Hickory Smoked Salt 1 tsp sage lots black pepper maple syrup, optional The secret to good sausage is to keep everything cold, including the meat grinder.

Each unit featured a wide front porch with a swing or rockers, bird feeders and hanging ferns optional.

In the locative, allative and ablative, it is optional whether one uses the simplest endings -ssë, -nna, -llo or their plural forms -ssen, -nnar or -llon (alternatively -llor).

In the example given above, the proposition, there exists a perfect justice, is not made as an assertory, but only as an optional judgment, which may be accepted or not, the consequence only being assertory.

A stew is simply the peasant's old friend the beanpot, supplied with a sufficient amount of meat to supply all ten essential amino acids for the meal, so that beans are happily rendered merely optional.

He knows the names of the muscles, knows how to attach the patches himself, and does a great deal of optional study in his own quarters, under a cataphoric dose hardly more than you might use in your own home for an entertainment tape, because he has learned now to induce a learning-state without the use of the drug.

He knows the names of the muscles, knows how to attach the patches himself, and does a great deal of optional study in his own quarters, under a cataphoric dose hardly more than you might use in your own home for an entertainment tape, because he has learned how to induce a learning-state without the use of the drug.

His term paper, an optional project on the mutation of angoran ovines, demonstrated an in-depth appreciation of genetic manipulation.

As long as it's optional, some employees will continue to hoard their hours and cash out at retirement.

Kayla tried not to look-it seemed as if wherever this was, it was strictly clothing optional.

Kayla tried not to lookit seemed as if wherever this was, it was strictly clothing optional.