Put

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Put Definition

• (n) the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
• (v) put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
• (v) cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"
• (v) formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn''t put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
• (v) attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
• (v) make an investment; "Put money into bonds"
• (v) estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."
• (v) cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture"
• (v) adapt; "put these words to music"
• (v) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one''s life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

Put Synonyms

• arrange
• assign
• cast
• commit
• couch
• frame
• invest
• lay
• order
• place
• pose
• position
• put
• put option
• redact
• set
• set up