opts
- 1Third-person singular simple present of opt.
Whenever the budget tightens, the firm opts for cheaper materials.
She opts out of the company newsletter every year.
Note
The present-tense form that agrees with he, she, it or a singular noun: the committee opts, not the committee opt. Because opt is intransitive, it never takes a direct object. Nobody opts a plan. The choice arrives through a preposition or an infinitive instead: she opts for the train, he opts to wait, a member opts out. Choose and select take objects; opt only points toward one.
He usually opts to walk rather than wait for the bus.
Each year the council opts in to the regional recycling scheme.
opts is a form of opt
opt, verb: To make a choice; to select one option from those available. Full entry
- Spelling
- opt → opts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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