optant

n. 抉择者, 选择者

词形变化

optants 复数 optants

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.

  2. 2.

    A person who opts into, out of, or for something.

词源

Partly (sense 1) borrowed from German Optant or Danish optant (both attested since 1907), partly from opt + ant.

来源:wiktionary