# chose

Pronunciation: say "CHOHZ" US /t͡ʃoʊz/, UK /t͡ʃəʊz/

## Verb

1. Past tense of choose. — simple past of choose
   - Simple: Past tense of choose. Use it for the past.
   - _She chose a career in medicine over law._
   - _The committee chose three finalists from hundreds of applicants._
2. Past participle of choose. Nonstandard; the standard past participle is chosen. *(nonstandard)* — past participle of choose
   - Simple: Past participle of choose. Some people say this after have, but chosen is the correct form.
   - _By then we had chose the cheaper option._
   - _They had chose to ignore the warning until it was too late._

## Noun

3. An item of personal property; a thing capable of being owned, whether physical goods or an enforceable right.
   - Simple: A piece of personal property that a person owns, such as goods or money owed to them.
   - _Under property law, a chose may be tangible goods or an intangible right like a debt._
   - _The will transferred every chose to the surviving spouse._

## Verb

4. Past tense of chuse. *(obsolete)* — simple past of chuse
   - Simple: Past tense of chuse. Chuse is an old spelling of choose that is no longer used.

## Origin

From Middle French chose, from Latin causa ("cause, reason"). It is a doublet of cause.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/chose (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).