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–noun
the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
[Origin: 1640–50; after Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), of Cambridge, England, who rented horses and gave his customer only one choice, that of the horse nearest the stable door]
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