"opt out" meaning in English

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    }
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      "expansion": "opt + out",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From opt + out.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opts out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opted out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opted out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
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      "expansion": "opt out (third-person singular simple present opts out, present participle opting out, simple past and past participle opted out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, “A Drone Opting Out of the Hive”, performed by Code Orange:",
          "text": "But it's of no consequence\nThere's nothing you can say that is relevant\nYou can take my life, but I'll live again\nA thousand deaths that I have left to give\nA thousand deaths that I have left\n'Cause I am the drone\nOpting out of the hive",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose not to participate in something."
      ],
      "id": "en-opt_out-en-verb-txKkVrOK",
      "links": [
        [
          "choose",
          "choose"
        ],
        [
          "participate",
          "participate"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "opt-out"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
          "word": "jättää väliin"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
          "word": "jättäytyä pois"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
          "word": "se désengager"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
          "word": "ablehnen"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ustranjatʹsja",
          "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
          "word": "устраняться"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otkazátʹsja",
          "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
          "word": "отказа́ться"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
          "word": "pòvūći se"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opt out"
}

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    {
      "word": "opt in"
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "opt + out",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From opt + out.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opts out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opted out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opted out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "opt-out"
    }
  ],
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        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, “A Drone Opting Out of the Hive”, performed by Code Orange:",
          "text": "But it's of no consequence\nThere's nothing you can say that is relevant\nYou can take my life, but I'll live again\nA thousand deaths that I have left to give\nA thousand deaths that I have left\n'Cause I am the drone\nOpting out of the hive",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose not to participate in something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "choose",
          "choose"
        ],
        [
          "participate",
          "participate"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
      "word": "jättää väliin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
      "word": "jättäytyä pois"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
      "word": "se désengager"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
      "word": "ablehnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ustranjatʹsja",
      "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
      "word": "устраняться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otkazátʹsja",
      "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
      "word": "отказа́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "To choose not to participate in something",
      "word": "pòvūći se"
    }
  ],
  "word": "opt out"
}