optionlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of an option.

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Meanings

adjectiveoptionlike (comparative more optionlike, superlative most optionlike)

comparative more optionlike · superlative most optionlike

  1. businessResembling or characteristic of an option.

    “Cheap volatile assets with a huge upside are precisely the kinds of optionlike investments that clever zombie managers are energetically looking for,” he said.

    2009 March 13, Floyd Norris, “The Problem? Bankers Point to the Rules”, in New York Times

Origin

From option + -like.

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Cite this entry
APA

optionlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/optionlike

MLA

“optionlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/optionlike. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “optionlike,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/optionlike.

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