Associations to the word «Optant»
Wiktionary
OPTANT, noun. A person who lives in an region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
OPTANT, noun. A person who opts into, out of, or for something.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.