choice : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb with intention; in an intentional manner
  designedly; advisedly; on purpose; intentionally; by design; deliberately; purposely.
  
  • he used that word intentionally
  • I did this by choice

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• noun a small tasty bit of food
  tidbit; titbit.
  

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• noun the manner in which something is expressed in words
  diction; phrasing; verbiage; phraseology; wording.
  
  • use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton

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• noun a play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter
  

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• noun the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all
  

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Hob"son's choice"

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1. A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. ✍ It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the stable door.

Webster 1913

• noun the best method to achieve a desired result
  

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• adjective offering several alternative answers from which the correct one is to be chosen; or consisting of such questions
  
  • multiple-choice questions
  • a multiple-choice test

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• adjective advocating a woman's right to control her own body (especially her right to an induced abortion)
  

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• noun those who argue that the decision to have an induced abortion should be made by the mother
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) An excellent marine food fish (Diplodus, ∨ Lagodon, rhomboides) of the Southern United States; called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream. (b) A species of grunt (Orthopristis, ∨ Pomadasys, chrysopterus), an excellent food fish, common on the southern coasts of the United States; called also hogfish, and pigfish.

Webster 1913

• noun similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
  pinfish; Lagodon rhomboides; squirrelfish.
  
• noun a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
  sailor's-choice; Haemulon parra.
  

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• noun a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
  sailor's-choice; Haemulon parra.
  

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• to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

Webster 1913

• to take by way of preference; to choose.

Webster 1913