Choice I Make Choose Range People Tʃɔɪs Career

• we are faced with a difficult choice.
• women forced to make a choice between family and career
• we aim to help students make more informed career choices.
• i am sure you have made the right choice.

choice

1. an act of choosing between two or more possibilities; something that you can choose
• We are faced with a difficult choice.
• women forced to make a choice between family and career
• We aim to help students make more informed career choices.
• I am sure you have made the right choice.
• Resources are finite, and choices have to be made between competing priorities and needs.
• There is a wide range of choices open to you.

Extra Examples

• Doctors have to make moral choices every day of their lives.
• These are personal choices that people must make for themselves.
• I now had a clear choice: either I accept their terms or I leave.
• In the end, the choice was quite easy.
• She faced the stark choice of backing the new plan or losing her job.
• When did you make a conscious choice to become an artist?
• Your needs should dictate your choice.
• a careful choice of words
• a limited range of choices available to buyers
• a range of available choices
• to make choices about their future
• Leaders must make good decisions and tough choices.
• He wondered whether he had made the right choice.
• Nutrition factors are driving consumer choices.
2. the right to choose; the possibility of choosing
• SEE ALSO anti-choice
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/anti-choice
• If I had the choice, I would stop working tomorrow.
• He had no choice but to leave (= this was the only thing he could do).
• She's going to do it. She doesn't have much choice, really, does she?
• This government is committed to extending parental choice in education.
• After a delicious meal with free wine, the choice is yours: a quiet drink in the bar, the late night disco or a stroll along the beach beneath a starry sky.
• Sandy had to tell his tale in halting Italian. Since Franco spoke no English, he had no choice in the matter.

Extra Examples

• He had no choice about that.
• I had no choice but to cancel my holiday.
• The way he behaved meant that we had no choice in the matter.
• We gave her the choice, and she decided she'd like a bike for her birthday.
• Everyone in a democracy has the right to exercise choice.
• Your decision leaves me with no choice but to resign.
• You can have first choice of all the rooms.
• to extend parental choice as to which schools children should attend
• People still have a choice about where to live.
• I believe in freedom of choice.
• They were left with no choice but to trust her.
3. a person or thing that is chosen
• This colour wasn't my first choice.
• She's the obvious choice for the job.
• Hawaii remains a popular choice for winter vacation travel.
• She wouldn't be my choice as manager.
• I don’t like his choice of friends (= the people he chooses as his friends).

Extra Examples

• I think she's a very good choice for captain.
• It was a happy choice of venue
• Maria defended her choice of name for the child.
• Mary is a popular choice as chair of the committee.
• Much ill health is the result of poor diet and lifestyle choices.
• Our first choice for a holiday is the north of Scotland.
• Our first choice for a site was already taken.
• People were asked about their top choices for meeting locations.
• She questioned the choice of Murphy for this role.
• She was starting to regret her choice.
• The hotel is the preferred choice for business people.
• Bill is the obvious choice for captain of the team.
• I don't think much of her choice of outfit.
• The restaurant is a good choice for a night out.
• He seems an odd choice for this sort of work.
4. the number or range of different things from which to choose
• SEE ALSO Hobson’s choice
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hobson-s-choice
• The menu has a good choice of desserts.
• There wasn't much choice of colour.
• I can't decide. There's too much choice.

Extra Examples

• The shop has a very limited choice of ties.
• Students have a free choice from a range of subjects.
• Smoking may limit your choice of contraception.
• She has a choice between three different universities.
• We offer a choice of ten different destinations.
• The curtains come in a choice of twelve different colours.
• Do supermarkets offer consumers too much choice?
5. to have such a lot of things to choose from that it is very difficult to make a decision
6. because you have chosen
• I wouldn't go there by choice.
• I wouldn't have come to this bar by choice!
7. that is chosen by a particular group of people or for a particular purpose
• It's the software of choice for business use.
8. that you choose yourself
• First prize will be a meal for two at the restaurant of your choice.
9. used for saying that there is very little difference between two or more things that you can choose

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French chois, from choisir ‘choose’, of Germanic origin and related to choose.