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Hobson's choice

noun

1 Hobson's choice

The choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all.

Roget 744: compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription.    force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio [Lat.]; ... show more

Roget 609a: no choice, Hobson's choice; first come first served, random selection; necessity etc. 601; not a pin to choose etc. (equality) 27; any, the first that comes; ... show more

Roget 601: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.    necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion etc. ... show more


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