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optioning

optioning is the present participle and gerund of option.

Meaning of option

Verb

option (third-person singular simple present options, present participle optioning, simple past and past participle optioned)

  1. To purchase an option on something.
    • The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
  2. (dated) To configure, by setting an option.
    • The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy

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Questions about optioning

What is optioning the present participle and gerund of?
Optioning is the present participle and gerund of option.

Words near optioning in the dictionary

  1. optionee
  2. optioneering
  3. optionees
  4. optioner
  5. optioners
  6. optioning
  7. optionless
  8. optionlessness
  9. optionlike
  10. optionor
  11. optionors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: optioning (page history and authors); option (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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