By choice

Definition

choice /tʃↄÇs/ n ၁။ [C] ~ (between A and B) ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈ။ women forced to make a choice between family and career. အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားသည္မိသားစုအေရးႏွင့္ အလုပ္တာဝန္အေရး ႏွစ္ခုအနက္ တစ္ခုခုကို မုခ် ေရြးခ်ယ္ၾကရသည္။ ❍ We are faced with a difficult choice. တို႔ေတာ့ အေရြးရခက္ေနၿပီ။ ❍ What influenced you most in your choice of car? ကားကိုေရြးတဲ့အခါ ဘာကိုအဓိကထားသလဲ။ ၂။ [U] ေရြးရန္ အခြင့္အလမ္း။ If I had the choice, I would stop working tomorrow. ❍ He had no choice but to leave . ထြက္သြား ရန္မွတစ္ပါး အျခားမရိွ။ ❍ the choice of fish or meat as a main course ❍ I think you're making a mistake, but it's your choice! ၃။ [C] ေရြးခ်ယ္စရာ။ You have several choices open to you. ၄။ [C] ေရြးခ်ယ္လိုက္ေသာ သူ၊ အရာ။ She wouldn't be my choice as manager. ❍ She's the obvious choice for the job. ❍ I don't like his choice of (ie the people he chooses as his) friends. ❍ The film was the critics' choice at Cannes this year. ❍ The colour wasn't my first choice. ၅။ [U] ေရြးစရာမ်ား။ There's not much choice in the stores. See also hobson's choice adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ လက္ေရြး။ ၂။ ဂ႐ုတစိုက္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ထား ေသာ။ She summed up the situation in a few choice phrases. ❍ ( joc ) He used some pretty choice (ie rude or offensive) language! ❏ by choice [ IDM ] ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈအရ။ I wouldn't go there by choice. ❏ of one's choice [ IDM ] ႏွစ္သက္ရာ။ ႀကိဳက္ရာ။ First prize in the competition will be a meal for two at the restaurant of your choice.

Examples

1. Our aim is to provide greater choice for consumers.
2. [have a/the choice] : These people have the choice of whether to buy a house or rent one.
3. [choice between] : Students have a choice between studying French or German.
4. [exercise choice] : I think parents should be able to exercise some choice over what their children see on the Internet.
5. [give someone the choice] : If you were given the choice
6. would you prefer a cat or a dog?
7. [freedom of choice] : Freedom of choice is very important for many people.
8. [personal/parental/consumer choice] : The policy will limit parental choice rather than increase it.
9. [choice between] : He was facing a difficult choice between staying with his family or working abroad.
10. [choice of] : Our childhood experiences can influence our choice of career.
11. [make a choice] : He wants people to make their own choices.
12. [an informed choice] : The leaflet will enable you to make an informed choice about whether to go ahead with surgery.
13. [a stark choice] : Many poorer people are facing a stark choice between buying food or heating their homes.
14. [choice of] : The hotel has a well-run restaurant offering a good choice of dishes.
15. [a wide choice] : London has a wide choice of cinemas and theatres.
16. There are three choices of dessert on the menu.
17. [choice of] : The top of a mountain was an unusual choice of venue for a wedding.
18. [a good/popular/excellent choice] : Greece is a popular choice for a family holiday.
19. [someone’s first/second/number one etc choice] : I think Edinburgh University would be my first choice.
20. [the preferred choice] : Research has shown that Owen is the preferred choice amongst middle-class voters.
21. [an obvious/natural choice] : Pitcher
22. now 56
23. was not an obvious choice for the job.
24. [a career/holiday choice] : Parents are often crucial in determining their child’s career choice.