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1. Offering a choice of two things.

2. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if
one is taken, the other must be left.




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additional double makeshift replacement superseder
agent druthers metaphor replacing supplanter
alternate dummy metonymy representative surrogate
alternate choice election mock reserve symbol
analogy elective next best thing reserves synecdoche
another equal option ringer temporary
attainable equivalent optional saving clause tentative
backup ersatz optionality second string third string
change escape clause personnel secondary token
changeling escape hatch phony selection understudy
choice exchange pinch sign utility
comparison exchangeable pinch hitter spare utility player
contingency fake pleasure spares variant
copy fill-in possibility stand-in vicar
counterfeit ghost possible choice stopgap vicarious
deputy ghostwriter preference sub vice-president
different imitation pretext substituent vice-regent
discretion interchangeable provisional substitute volitional
discretional locum tenens proxy substitution voluntary
disjunctive loophole relief succedaneum way of escape