Meaning & use
druthers
One's own choice or preference, especially about how something is done, used mainly in informal American English.
See it in a sentence
If I had my druthers, we'd spend the whole weekend at the lake.
Given her druthers, she'd rather work from home three days a week.
A note on using this word
Druthers almost always appears in the phrase 'have one's druthers' or 'if I had my druthers'; it rarely stands alone in a sentence.
Words with a similar meaning
preferencechoice
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