Betekenis van alternative In het Nederlands

• 0 An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use another one:

  • The opposition parties have so far failed to set out an alternative strategy.

  • An alternative venue for the concert is being sought.

  • alternative comedy

• 1 something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility of choice:

  • an alternative to coffee

  • There must be an alternative to people sleeping on the streets.

  • I'm afraid I have no alternative but to ask you to leave (= that is what I have to do).

• 2 something that is different, esp. from what is usual; a choice:

  • You can make it look good by comparing it to a crummy alternative.

  • I have no alternative but to ask you to leave.

• 3 offering a choice between two or more things:

  • People stay because they don’t have alternative opportunities.