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optant|ˈɒptənt|
[G. and Da. optant, f. L. optant-, optans, pr. pple. of optāre to choose.]
A person who, when the territory of which he is a citizen changes its sovereignty, has a choice between retaining his former citizenship, and accepting a new one.
1914W. R. Prior North Sleswick under Prussian Rule 9 Nearly 40,000 of the Sleswick Danes had become optants... The peril to which their optant relatives and neighbours were exposed. 1927Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 11/5 This arbitral tribunal pronounced in favour of the Hungarian optants. 1930New Statesman 10 May 138/2 Both sides have made considerable concessions, especially with regard to the difficult problem of the dispossessed Hungarian optants. 1937V. Bartlett This is my Life x. 143 The Hungarian optants—Hungarians in Transylvania who had the right to choose between Hungarian and Roumanian nationality after the territory had been transferred to Roumanian rule. |