optant

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
    — According to one authority, nearly 40,000 of the Sleswick Danes had become 'optants'—that is, had taken the 'option' of Danish nationality—or had emigrated, by the end of 1880.
  2. A person who opts into, out of, or for something.

词形变化

optants plural

词源

Partly (sense 1) borrowed from German Optant or Danish optant (both attested since 1907), partly from opt + ant.
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