Both Uses
alternative
in
Unwind, by Shusterman
(Edited)
- Thank goodness for the Storking Initiative, that wonderful law that allows girls like her a far better alternative.
p. 53.9alternative = other possibility
- Risa knows he didn't want it, but he had been willing to take it when the alternative was a miserable life with a miserable family.
p. 113.5 *
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)