soft option
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soft option
n
in a number of choices, the one considered to be easy or the easiest to do, involving the least difficulty or exertion
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Noun | 1. | soft option - an easier alternative; "the instructor took the soft option and gave the boy a passing grade" alternative, option, choice - one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse" |
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