naked option | a put or call option for which the seller or buyer has no underlying security position |
covered option | a put or call option backed by the shares underlying the option |
call option call | the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
put option put | the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
incentive option incentive stock option | an option granted to corporate executives if the company achieves certain financial goals |
choice selection option pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
co-option co-optation | the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent) |
co-option co-optation | the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership) |
option alternative choice | one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen, what option did I have?, there no other alternative, my only choice is to refuse |
default option default | an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified |
soft option | an easier alternative, the instructor took the soft option and gave the boy a passing grade |
landowner landholder property owner | a holder or proprietor of land |
owner proprietor | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business, he is the owner of a chain of restaurants |
owner possessor | a person who owns something, they are searching for the owner of the car, who is the owner of that friendly smile? |
owner-driver | a motorist who owns the car that he she drives |
owner-occupier | an occupant who owns the home that he she lives in |
part-owner | a person who owns something in common with others |
planter plantation owner | the owner or manager of a plantation |
slaveholder slave owner slaver | someone who holds slaves |
option | the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price, the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited |
stock option | a benefit given by a company to an employee in the form of an option to buy stock in the company at a discount or at a fixed price, stock options are not much use as an incentive if the price at which they can be exercised is out of reach |
stock option | the right to buy or sell a stock at a specified price within a stated period |
call option | an option to buy |
put option | an option to sell |
lock-up option | an option to buy the crown jewels offered to a white knight in order to forestall a hostile takeover |
local option | freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction |
owner-occupied | lived in by the owner, one owner-occupied and three rental apartments |