alternative

1. a. Offering a choice of two things. Source: opted

2. a. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. Source: opted

3. a. Alternate; reciprocal. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. n. 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. Source: opted

6. n. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. Source: opted

7. n. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. Source: opted

8. adj. serving or used in place of another Source: wordnet

9. adj. necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities Source: wordnet

10. adj. pertaining to unconventional choices Source: wordnet

11. n. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen Source: wordnet

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