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local option
noun
- a right of choice exercised by a minor political division, as a county, especially as to allowing the sale of liquor.
local option
noun
- (esp in Scotland, New Zealand, and the US) the privilege of a municipality, county, etc, to determine by referendum whether a particular activity, esp the sale of liquor, shall be permitted there
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Word History and Origins
Origin of local option1
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences
The principle of local option, which is nothing but that of direct government by the people, is being everywhere accepted.
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The abolition of drunkenness by local option is selfish, unpractical, and unscriptural.
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It will not do to say that notwithstanding the local option law is in operation, liquor is still at the root of the evil.
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He tells us that it was a kind of "local option" flood—a little wet for that part of the country.
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Local option has kept a great many towns and counties "dry" for years, and it is a step toward wide-spread prohibition.
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