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What (who) is alternative - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Alternativism; Alternate; The Alternative; Alternative (disambiguation); The Alternative (disambiguation)
alternative
n.
1) to propose an alternative
2) to fall back on an alternative
3) a viable alternative
4) an alternative to
5) no alternative but to + inf. (we have no alternative but to compromise)
Alternative
·adj Alternate; reciprocal.
II. Alternative ·adj Offering a choice of two things.
III. Alternative ·adj Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
IV. Alternative ·noun The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
V. Alternative ·noun A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
VI. Alternative ·noun An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
VII. Alternative ·noun Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
alternative
¦ adjective
1. (of one or more things) available as another possibility.
(of two things) mutually exclusive.
2. relating to activities that depart from or challenge traditional norms.
¦ noun one of two or more available possibilities.
Derivatives
alternatively adverb
Origin
C16: from Fr. alternatif, -ive or med. L. alternativus, from L. alternat-, alternare 'do by turns', from alternus 'every other', from alter 'other of two'.
Usage
Some traditionalists maintain that, because of the word's origin, you can only have a maximum of two alternatives, and that uses where there are more than two are wrong. Such uses are, however, normal in modern standard English.
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Alternative
Alternative or alternate may refer to:
Examples of use of alternative
1. In which case, score one for alternative–alternative medicine.
2. Same goes for "there‘s no alternative". There‘s always an alternative.
3. Everyone talks about "alternative livelihoods" and alternative crops as the solution to the drug problem.
4. Energy Alternative energy Launches partnership with Norway on research into alternative energy sources.
5. Ethiopia is looking for an alternative route to the sea an alternative to Eritrea.