Legal rights

• Option (finance)
  Option (finance)
  In finance, an option is a derivative financial instrument that specifies a contract between two parties for a future transaction on an asset at a reference price. The buyer of the option gains the right, but not the obligation, to engage in that transaction, while the seller incurs the...
  
  , an instrument that conveys the right, but not the obligation, to engage in a future transaction (for example, on some underlying security or on a parcel of real property), or in a futures contract
• Option (law)
  Option (law)
  In law, an option is the right to convey a piece of property. The person granting the option is called the optionor and the person who has the benefit of the option is called the optionee .Options characteristically exist in one of two forms:* Call options, which give the beneficiary the right to...
  
  , the legal underpinning of a financial option
• Option contract
  Option contract
  An option contract is defined as "a promise which meets the requirements for the formation of a contract and limits the promisor's power to revoke an offer." Restatement of Contracts § 25 ....
  
  , a type of legal contract
• Option (filmmaking), a contractual agreement between a film producer and a writer, in which the producer obtains the right to buy a screenplay from the writer before a certain date.

Sport

• Option run
  Option run
  The option run or option is a designed play in American football and Canadian football. In the simplest version of this play, the quarterback receives the ball and runs either to the right or left, accompanied by an additional offensive player...
  
  , a play in American and Canadian football
• Option offense
  Option offense
  The option offense is a generic term that is used to describe a wide variety of offensive systems in American football. Option offenses are characterized as such due to the predominance of option running plays employed in these schemes. Option offenses have traditionally relied heavily upon running...
  
  , an offensive scheme in American football primarily predicated on option runs
• Option (baseball), a type of player transaction

Computing

• Option key
  Option key
  The Option key is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards. It is located between the Control key and Command key on a typical Mac keyboard. There are two option keys on modern Mac desktop and notebook keyboards, one on each side of the space bar....
  
  , a key on Apple computer keyboards
• Option type
  Option type
  In programming languages and type theory, an option type or maybe type is a polymorphic type that represents encapsulation of an optional value; e.g. it is used as the return type of functions which may or may not return a meaningful value when they're applied...
  
  , a polymorphic data type in programming languages
• Command-line option, an optional parameter to a command

Publications

• Option (car magazine)
  Option (car magazine)
  Option is an automotive magazine founded by Daijiro Inada in 1981, to meet the demand for enthusiasts of modified Japanese cars in Japan....
  
  , a Japanese car magazine
• Option (music magazine)
  Option (music magazine)
  Option was a music magazine based in Los Angeles, California.-History:Originally called OPtion, it, along with Sound Choice, were the dual successors to the earlier music magazine OP, published by John Foster and the Lost Music Network and known for its diverse scope and the role it played in...
  
  , a defunct American music magazine

History

• "The Option", an alternate name for the South Tyrol Option Agreement
  South Tyrol Option Agreement
  The South Tyrol Option Agreement refers to the period between 1939 and 1943, when the native German and Ladin speaking people in South Tyrol and three communes in the province of Belluno were given the "option" of either emigrating to neighboring Nazi Germany or remaining in Fascist Italy and...
  
  , a resettlement program of German speakers living in Italy initiated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini

Entertainment

• OPTION unit, a fictional weapons platform for the Vic Viper in the Gradius series of video games

• "Options", a song by Pedro the Lion from his 2007 album Control
  Control (Pedro the Lion album)
  Control is the third full-length album by Pedro the Lion. It was released on April 16, 2002 on Jade Tree Records. It is a concept album about a business man who is having an affair on his wife, who kills him...
  
  
• Options (Welcome to Paradox), an episode of Welcome to Paradox
• Options (novel), a novel by Robert Sheckley

Organisations

• Option N.V.
  Option N.V.
  Option N.V. is a publicly quoted technology company, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. Option specializes in the design, development, production and commercialization of broadband wireless technology devices. Option's mission statement is to provide "anywhere, anytime easy access to information"...
  
  , a company providing wireless technology solutions