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opt out
verb
- intr, adverboften foll byof to choose not to be involved (in) or part (of)
noun
- the act of opting out, esp of local-authority administration
opt-outs by hospitals and schools
Idioms and Phrases
Choose not to participate, as in Our school opted out of the state competition . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
“It’s like how long ago people were freaking out about guys opting out of bowl games? Yeah. No one’s worried about it anymore,” Davis said.
Nearly every state, including Maryland and California, has a law that allows parents to opt out of sex education classes for their children.
The UAE has a reservation - or opt out - to the Genocide Convention which has meant in previous cases, the ICJ does not have jurisdiction over these types of claims.
The Angels already had opted out of their lease, and they had in fact agreed to a one-year extension of the opt-out window.
While wealthier families can choose to opt out of a public school system with rapidly dwindling funding, not all students in the state can.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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