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opt, v.|ɒpt|
[ad. F. opte-r to choose, ad. L. optāre to choose, wish, desire: cf. adopt.]
1. intr. To choose, make choice (between alternatives); to decide (for one or other of two alternatives).
1877World 25 Apr., The Paris correspondent of the Times, about a month ago..was allowed to speak of Alsatians opting between France and Germany. 1879Sala Paris Herself Again I. x. 151 He was supposed to be a native of Alsace-Lorraine, who had ‘opted’ to become a French subject. 1885Pall Mall G. 31 Jan. 8/2 If..returned for more than one borough he should be permitted to opt for the borough of Northampton. 1890Gladstone in Leeds Mercury 25 July 7 The present Heligolanders opting to be British subjects. 1899Speaker 15 Apr. 433/1 The two boys ‘opted’ for the Navy.
2. Phr. to opt out of: to choose not to do or participate in (something); also absol. So, opter-out, one who opts out (of something). Hence phr. to opt into: to choose to do or participate in something; also absol. as to opt in. See also opting vbl. n.
1922[see opting vbl. n.]. 1951Ann. Reg. 1950 82 It became clear that many of the older and larger schools..were likely to opt out [of the Education Act]. 1966‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive i. 12 A man wants to opt out; they have to give him an incentive that will make him opt in again. 1966Maclean's Mag. 20 Aug. 43 Morgan has no cures for society so he opts out, even if his Mum does call him a class traitor. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 1/1 Pierre Trudeau opted into the Liberal leadership race yesterday. 1968Listener 20 June 790/3 But the problem is compounded if one section of the affluent majority now decides to avert its eyes from the whole sordid business of material betterment. The opters-out may not realise it, but they will make it harder to remove the remaining pockets of real poverty. 1970New Scientist 30 Apr. 226/1 It is clearly impossible for the UK to opt out of the microelectronics race. 1971‘G. Black’ Time for Pirates v. 85, I looked at the princely opter-out conscious of how much I liked him. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon xii. 174, I did not intend to go to the top, having already opted out on grounds of risk. 1976Country Life 26 Feb. 496/3 Her group of rather dim students..are all determined pre-adolescents. Neither drop-outs, nor opter-outs, they have simply refused to opt in. 1977Church Times 29 Apr. 2/4 The OCU said that mercy-killing extended to cases in which there was no dissent from the victim was even more permissive than the recommendations of voluntary euthanasia Bills—‘in these at least the victim has to ‘opt in’ to be killed. Should these recommendations become law it will not easily be possible to ‘opt out’ of being killed.’ |