put option

Questions about put option

What does put option mean?

put option means "an option to sell". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for put option?

Close synonyms include put. 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.

What is the opposite of put option?

The recorded antonyms are call option.

Is put option a common word?

put option is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.