choice
/tʃɔɪs/ noun A2- An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. · Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
- The power to choose. · She didn't leave us much choice.
- One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. · The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
- Anything that can be chosen. · You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate.
- The best or most preferable part.
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My hand has been forced, however, by the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty defends the memory of his brother, and I have no choice but to lay the facts before the public exactly as they occurred.
It presented, as the astute reader will have already perceived, few difficulties in its solution, for a very limited choice of alternatives must get to the root of the matter.
I was generally liked on board, and had the sailors possessed the right of selecting a captain themselves, I feel convinced their choice would have fallen on me.
Darcy is neither by honour nor inclination confined to his cousin, why is not he to make another choice?
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