Meaning & use

druthers

noun·Advanced

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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