Synonyms of put

Noun


1. put option, put, option

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

Verb


1. put, set, place, pose, position, lay, move, displace

usage: 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"

2. put, change, alter, modify

usage: cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing"

3. frame, redact, cast, put, couch, give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate

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

4. put, assign, use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ

usage: 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"

5. invest, put, commit, place, spend, expend, drop

usage: make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

6. place, put, set, estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge

usage: estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."

7. put, subject

usage: cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture"

8. put, arrange, set

usage: adapt; "put these words to music"

9. arrange, set up, put, order, organize, organise

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

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Definition and meaning of put (Dictionary)