soft option

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   an easier alternative

   “the instructor took the soft option and gave the boy a passing grade”

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Questions about soft option

What does soft option mean?

soft option means "an easier alternative".

Is soft option a common word?

soft option is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.