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Hobson's choice

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A choice between what is available and nothing; a lack of an alternative.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See choice.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The choice of taking either the primary option or nothing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Thomas Hobson, (1544?–1630), English keeper of a livery stable, from his requirement that customers take either the horse nearest the stable door or none.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

After Thomas Hobson (1544-1631) of Cambridge, England, who rented horses and gave his customers the choice of the horse nearest the stable door or no horse at all.

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