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local option ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a right of choice exercised by a minor political division, as a county, especially as to allowing the sale of liquor.
Origin of local option First recorded in 1875–80 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for local option Historical Examples of local option
To learn how true a statement this is you must read, not the comic weeklies, but the official returns of local-option elections.
Irvin S. Cobb
British Dictionary definitions for local option 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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