by choice

adverb

with intention; in an intentional manner

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he used that word intentionally

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I did this by choice

• Syn:

↑intentionally, ↑deliberately, ↑designedly, ↑on purpose, ↑purposely, ↑advisedly, ↑by design

• Ant: ↑accidentally (for: ↑deliberately), ↑unintentionally (for: ↑intentionally)

• Derived from adjective: ↑deliberate (for: ↑deliberately), ↑intentional (for: ↑intentionally)

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phrasal or for choice

: by preference

Austrian by birth and French by choice — A.E.Wier

in the evening sat for choice without a light — H.W.Glover

also : most usually

hired outlaws for choice to skin and drive and cook for him on the buffalo range — W.S.Campbell

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by choice phrase

if you do something by choice, you do it because you want to and not because you have to

She repeated that she was very comfortable and lived here by choice.

Thesaurus: free and independent_synonym

Main entry: choice

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of one's own volition

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by choice (also out of choice)

◇ If you do something by choice or out of choice, you choose to do it.

I live here by choice. [=I live here because I want to]

No one forced them to do it. They acted out of choice.

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Main Entry: ↑choice

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by ˈchoice idiom

because you have chosen

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I wouldn't go there by choice.

Main entry: ↑choice_idiom