Noun
- 1. put option, put, option
- usage: the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
Verb
- 1. put, set, place, pose, position, lay, move, displace
- usage: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
- 2. put, change, alter, modify
- usage: cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing"
- 3. frame, redact, cast, put, couch, give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate
- usage: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
- 4. put, assign, use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
- usage: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
- 5. invest, put, commit, place, spend, expend, drop
- usage: make an investment; "Put money into bonds"
- 6. place, put, set, estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge
- usage: estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."
- 7. put, subject
- usage: cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture"
- 8. put, arrange, set
- usage: adapt; "put these words to music"
- 9. arrange, set up, put, order, organize, organise
- usage: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
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