optioned

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of option.

   The producer optioned the rights to the bestselling thriller.

   His screenplay was optioned within a week of being finished.

   Note

   A regular -ed form, so one spelling serves both the past tense (the studio optioned the novel) and the passive (the novel was optioned). The usual meaning behind it is buying an option, the right to acquire something later, most often the rights to a book or script. The older sense of configuring something by setting an option is dated. The same spelling also does duty as the adjective for fitted extras.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a specified kind or number of optional features or extras fitted.

   Like a phone plan that bundles in every add-on rather than the bare minimum.

   The dealership only had a richly optioned trim left on the lot.

   Collectors pay a premium for rare, fully optioned examples of the model.

   Similarequipped

   Note

   An adjective that almost never travels alone. It needs a word in front saying how many extras or what kind: fully optioned, richly optioned, unusually optioned. John Gunnell's How to Restore & Upgrade Your Vintage Car with Factory Accessories (1982) uses it for a rare combination of upholstery and vinyl top. Because that modifier does the grading, the adjective itself takes no more or most.

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