"optional" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

optional adjetivo

optional + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 42
optional information • optional feature • optional school • optional equipment • optional extra • ...
(2) feature, extra, item
Kolokacji: 3
(3) school, sunroof
Kolokacji: 2
(4) equipment, kit
Kolokacji: 2
(6) course, round, meal
Kolokacji: 3
(9) excursion, tour, celibacy
Kolokacji: 3
1. optional excursion = nieobowiązkowa wycieczka optional excursion
2. optional tour = nieobowiązkowa wycieczka optional tour
3. optional celibacy = nieobowiązkowy celibat optional celibacy
  • The modest resolution asked that a study be made with a view to considering optional celibacy as a possible element in the life of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • The women's ordination movements and the priests who ask for optional celibacy will certainly not be muffled as a result of the papal tour.
  • In addition he said the Imani Temple would permit "optional celibacy, which means our priests will be able to decide whether or not they want to marry."
  • Because the Vatican continues to cauterize the feminine dimension by refusing women in the fullness of ministry or by granting optional celibacy, the church is suffering.
  • Second, return to optional celibacy for priests.
  • Conservatives and liberals alike should acknowledge that sexual secrecy is destroying the church, and one way to save it would be to make celibacy optional.
  • The delegates want a revival of what they call "the biblical tradition of optional celibacy, which existed in the first 12 centuries of church life."
  • They cited several surveys indicating that most American Catholics support the ordination of women and optional celibacy among priests.
  • The movement stems from a letter sent in August by 163 priests in the Milwaukee diocese urging the nation's bishops to make celibacy optional.
  • The group generally favors optional celibacy for diocesan priests, and not for priests in religious orders.
adverbio + optional
Kolokacji: 3
entirely optional • strictly optional • completely optional
optional + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
optional on • optional for • optional in

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