"nonchoice" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "non- + choice",
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  "etymology_text": "From non- + choice.",
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      "form": "nonchoices",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2009, Elline Lipkin, Girls' Studies: Seal Studies, page 8:",
          "text": "The “choices” that children may seem to make when left alone with a roomful of toys can be realized as nonchoices in light of how much gender scripting they have, at remarkably early ages, already absorbed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John Sommers-Flanagan, Rita Sommers-Flanagan, Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice, page 129:",
          "text": "To make matters even more daunting, you're responsible not only for your choices, but also for your nonchoices. This is because every choice you make represents, at the same time, the death of hundreds of other possibilities.",
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        "An action or situation that is not a choice."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "non-choice"
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  "word": "nonchoice"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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  "etymology_text": "From non- + choice.",
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      "tags": [
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      "expansion": "nonchoice (plural nonchoices)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2009, Elline Lipkin, Girls' Studies: Seal Studies, page 8:",
          "text": "The “choices” that children may seem to make when left alone with a roomful of toys can be realized as nonchoices in light of how much gender scripting they have, at remarkably early ages, already absorbed.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, John Sommers-Flanagan, Rita Sommers-Flanagan, Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice, page 129:",
          "text": "To make matters even more daunting, you're responsible not only for your choices, but also for your nonchoices. This is because every choice you make represents, at the same time, the death of hundreds of other possibilities.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An action or situation that is not a choice."
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      "word": "non-choice"
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