put

1. 1.

   the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

   Synonymsput option

   Broaderoption

   Part ofstraddle

Other forms of put

plural

puts·

past tense

putted·

present participle

putting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about put

What does put mean?

put means "put into a certain place or abstract location". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in put?

put has 1 syllable: put. In IPA it is /ˈpʊt/.

What is another word for put?

Close synonyms include set, place, pose, position, lay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is put a common word?

put is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with put?

4 words rhyme with put. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.