All 3 Uses of
alternative
in
Oryx and Crake
- It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.
p. 177.9alternative = other possibility
- The alternative for Jimmy was turkey with the parental-unit turkeys, joke, haha, said Jimmy, and he wasn't up for that; so it would be his pleasure to accept.
p. 194.5 *
- It wasn't these instructionals as such that generated the cash surplus, they explained: it was the equipment and the alternative medicines you needed in order to get the optimum effect.
p. 245.9 *alternative = non-traditional or non-standard
Definitions:
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(1)
(alternative as in: an alternative plan) a different choice or possibility, or describing something that offers a different choice or possibility
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(2)
(alternative as in: alternative medicine) non-traditional or non-standard