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    • alternative : Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.<!-- cf. OED: "Stating or offering the one or the other of two things of which either may be taken." --> <!-- cf. also in OED: "Of two things: Such that one or the other may be chosen, the choice of either involving the rejection of the other. (Sometimes of more than two.)" -->

      • alternative : Other; different from something else. <!-- OED: "ellipt. The other (of two), which may be chosen instead." -->

        • alternative : Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.<!-- cf. OED: "Having an alternative bearing, purport, or use."-->

          • alternative : Alternate, reciprocal. <!-- cf. OED: "Characterized by alternation; alternate." -->

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