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either-or
[ ee-ther-awr, ahy-ther- ]
adjective
- allowing no equivocation; being limited in choice to two options:
It's an either-or situation—you pay the bill or you lose the company's services.
either-or
adjective
- presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
an either-or situation
Word History and Origins
Origin of either-or1
Example Sentences
Making mothering and working an either/or robs us all of the powerful contributions mothers make to our economy.
Again, an either/or debate—this kind of assistance is depicted as helping employees, not employers.
It is another one of those either/or guilt-fueled debates—should we be having quantity time or quality time with children?
And a lot of the Mommy Wars have been about it being either/or.
An "either-or" more terrible no doubt than the one he had formulated before her just a year ago.
In any event, the "either-or-ness" has been most unfortunate in its consequences.
When "either-or" is used in the reproduction of dreams, it is, as I have already mentioned, to be replaced by "and."
The dream never utters the alternative "either-or," but accepts both as having equal rights in the same connection.
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