option yearn.North AmericanSport a one-year optional extension agreed when a player makes a fixed-term contract with a club, which may be taken up by the club when the original term is at an end.
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1958 Washington Post 19 Nov. d1/2 Bukich said he's playing the ‘option year’ of his contract.
2002 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Electronic ed.) 26 Mar. He is in the second year of a six-year contract that includes an option year.