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optionlike

optionlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of an option.

Adjective

optionlike (comparative more optionlike, superlative most optionlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an option.
    • “Cheap volatile assets with a huge upside are precisely the kinds of optionlike investments that clever zombie managers are energetically looking for,” he said.2009 March 13, Floyd Norris, “The Problem? Bankers Point to the Rules”, in New York Times

Forms of optionlike

comparativemore optionlike
superlativemost optionlike

Origin of optionlike

From option + -like.

Questions about optionlike

What does optionlike mean?
Optionlike means resembling or characteristic of an option.
What part of speech is optionlike?
Optionlike is an adjective.

Words near optionlike in the dictionary

  1. optioner
  2. optioners
  3. optioning
  4. optionless
  5. optionlessness
  6. optionlike
  7. optionor
  8. optionors
  9. options
  10. optique
  11. optivar

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