viable option

collocation in English

meaningsofviableandoption

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viable
adjective
uk
/ˈvaɪ.ə.bəl/
us
/ˈvaɪ.ə.bəl/
able to work as intended or able ...
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option
noun
uk
/ˈɒp.ʃən/
us
/ˈɑːp.ʃən/
one thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make ...
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(Definition ofviableandoptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofviable option

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If it does, then premise 3 is correct and the balancing strategy is not aviableoption.
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For the authors, moral reform is not aviableoption.
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A replication study including normally developing readers is needed to determine whether this is aviableoption.
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Continued openly authoritarian rule, or authoritarian reversal, could not have seemed aviableoption in the 1990s for countries so dependent on external aid.
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Many of the progressive intellectuals did not hesitate to praise the post-revolutionary strategy of communal rural development as a trulyviableoptionfor peripheral development.
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Ballooning therefore became a moreviableoptionfor dispersal.
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Indeed, it likely did not even occur to them as aviableoption.
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Selective immunization does not seem to be aviableoption, and the choice is between universal immunization and "doing-nothing" (31).
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For this reason, the commercial development of smoke treatments for the stimulation of seed germination is considered aviableoption.
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It is evident in this research that autonomy as individualism is not aviableoptionfor many older people receiving health care.
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These results indicate that for a female's first meal, sugar is aviableoptionand is preferred when nectar-related stimuli are strong.
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A series of community workshops was held, leading to the recognition that the utilisation of abandoned farmland and irrigation infrastructure was the onlyviableoption.
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The masculine he has never been such aviableoptionin indefinite anaphora for female writers as it has been for men.
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Because of the difficulty, labor-intensiveness, and expense involved, making replicas from jade or other greenstone was not aviableoption.
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For the purposes of this study, the survey approach was the onlyviableoptionfor making estimates, because experimental work would have taken several years.
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The latter is not aviableoptionfor most consumers.
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