n. the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

v. cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"

v. to hit a golf ball on the putting surface with a putter

v. raise; "up the ante"

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. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

v. make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

v. formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"

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"

adv. spatially, temporally, or metaphorically up :"Look up!" "Let's move the date up"; "The music surged up"

adj. used up; "time is up"

adj. (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"

adj. open; "the windows are up"

adj. being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"

adj. getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"

adj. out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning"

adj. extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"

v. bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?"

v. arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

v. provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount"

v. give to a charity or good cause; "I donated blood to the Red Cross for the victims of the earthquake"; "donate money to the orphanage"; "She donates to her favorite charity every month"

v. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"

v. give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms"

v. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

v. administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"

v. obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to our home?"

v. convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds

v. transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"

v. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

v. present for acceptance or rejection; "She offered us all a cold drink"

v. hand over formally

v. furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas"

v. throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

v. throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

v. get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"

v. throw forcefully

v. put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"

v. give expression to; "She showed her disappointment"

v. indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"

v. put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

v. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"

v. lift or elevate

v. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

v. engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

v. get on the back of; "mount a horse"

v. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

v. ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

v. refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"

v. hand over formally

v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something

v. present for acceptance or rejection; "She offered us all a cold drink"

v. perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"

v. plan for an activity or event; "I've scheduled a concert next week"

v. put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

v. put into commission; equip for service; of ships

v. enter into a contractual arrangement

v. hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support"

v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

adj. below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"

v. cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"

v. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

v. take away the enthusiasm of

v. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"

v. connect by telephone; "the operator put a call through to Rio"

v. preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"

v. follow through with

v. put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"

v. set at

v. lay on

v. leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;

v. arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"

v. take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

v. go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"

v. create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

v. cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"

v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

v. put together out of existing material; "compile a list"

v. apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!"

v. put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump"

v. to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt"

v. transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"

adj. having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"

adj. having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies"

adj. having no further concern with; "he was through with school and he was through with family"- John Dos Passos; "done with gambling"; "done with drinking"

adj. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"

adj. raised above the ground; "an elevated platform"

adj. held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag"

adj. moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"

adj. (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"

adj. characterized by rising prices: "a bull market"

adj. coming to maturity; "the rising generation"

adj. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare

adj. fully awake; "the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night"

adj. marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours"

adj. sloping upward

adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin

adj. growing or extending upward; "an assurgent stem or leaf"

adj. rising from the sea; "a seahorse assurgent"

adj. used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"

adj. "a soaring eagle"

n. the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

v. reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"

v. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

v. destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"

v. keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"

v. take and lift upward

v. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"

adj. being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"