opting
- 1Present participle of opt.
More commuters are opting for bikes instead of cars on the morning route.
The committee is opting to delay the vote until the spring session.
Note
A form that does two jobs. In continuous tenses it is a participle (she is opting for the train), and in noun positions it is a gerund (opting out costs nothing). Because opt is intransitive, it never takes a direct object; the choice arrives through for, to or out. You opt for a thing, opt to do something, and opt out of what you would otherwise be part of.
Opting out of the newsletter takes a single click.
Several members are opting out of the group trip this year.
opting is a form of opt
opt, verb: To make a choice; to select one option from those available. Full entry
- Spelling
- opt → opting: add -ing
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