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Presenting a choice between two or more possibilities
“Managers have promised to find alternative roles within the company for as many of the laid-off staff as possible.”
Relating to activities that depart from or challenge traditional norms
“He finds mainstream music boring and chooses to write songs with alternative rhythms and harmonies instead.”
Acting as a quick, interim or temporary measure
Being a form or version that is derived or that differs in some respect
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position
Alternative of two or more
Of, or relating to, grunge music
Modern or contemporary
An additional single amount
Non-pharmacological therapies are ways to decrease pain
From, or related to, a subgroup that does not form a numerical majority
One of two or more available possibilities
“We do not have an alternative as all the other restaurants are fully booked.”
Someone or something that serves as a substitute
“The backup plan will come into play as an alternative should our primary strategy fail.”
The freedom or ability to choose
“He was left with no alternative but to start waging the fight of the state against organized crime.”
A form or version of something that is derived or that differs in some respect
A set of intended actions, through which one intends to achieve a goal
(informal) A departure from the norm
A person or thing that is equal to or corresponds with another
Inferior or next best option, falling behind the top choice
An ambiguity or inadequacy in a set of rules that can be potentially exploited
Either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible
One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered
A chance or possibility for progress or profit
In reference to an alternative option
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