optioning
- 1Present participle and gerund of option.
The producer spent months optioning the rights to the bestselling trilogy.
By optioning the property early, the developer locked in a favorable price.
Note
The -ing form does double duty. In "she is optioning the novel" it is a verb in progress, and in "the optioning took months" it names the act itself. Its meaning comes from the contract sense of the noun option: buying the right to purchase later, not making the purchase itself. A dated use meant configuring something by setting an option, but today the word means the contract.
optioning is a form of option
option, verb: In baseball, to assign a player to a minor-league team while the major-league club keeps the right to bring him back. Full entry
- Spelling
- option → optioning: add -ing
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