The phrase "accepted alternative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a choice or option that is recognized and approved by a group or authority.
Example: "The committee has decided that the new policy is an accepted alternative to the previous guidelines."
Alternatives: "recognized option" or "approved substitute".
In 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) accepted acupuncture as a therapy for drug treatment, followed by acceptance from the National Institutes of Health in 1997 that acupuncture was an accepted alternative therapy to Western medicine.
The first method would not have been an accepted alternative to the use of deadly force.
Validated and accepted alternative toxicity tests will be incorporated into toxicity testing recommendations for regulatory agencies.
NOTE: POLS UN4710 Principles of Quantitative Political Research is not an accepted alternative for the statistics requirement.
Sony lost the battle two decades ago when its highly regarded Betamax technology was defeated by VHS, a more widely accepted alternative.
Early in the last century, smoking was an accepted alternative for men to chewing tobacco; for women, it was daring and transgressive.
The potential readings are directly co-dependent on the potential at the reference electrode, which requires maintenance and for which very few accepted alternatives have been proposed.
Sher, thus, is looking for a happy medium between these two widely accepted alternatives.
They are often viewed and represented as less accepted alternatives to the conventional forest management paradigm in teaching and field practice (Puettmann et al. 2009).
But others might be costly, especially those involving devices that cannot accept alternative methods of input.
They accept alternative forms of livelihoods, provided traditional uses are respected.
