The phrase "alternative meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different interpretations or definitions of a word, phrase, or concept.
Example: "The word 'bank' has an alternative meaning as a financial institution, in addition to its meaning as the side of a river."
Alternatives: "different interpretation" or "secondary definition".
It has given us, our life, a wonderful alternative meaning.
It has a name, "the Venetian alternative" — meaning a readiness to turn one's back on history and retreat into a perfect simulacrum of the past, not to reject modernity but to pretend it isn't happening.
"Alternative," meaning investments in other than stocks, bonds and money-market instruments.
Drivers would be given about £8,000 to switch to a fully electric alternative, meaning the government would have to fork out £110m.
Sometimes the ambiguity is considered syntactic because the alternative meaning correspond to alternative syntactic configurations (e.g., 'Mary saw John with a telescope').
Near the beginning of the 2nd century ce, Greek physician, writer, and philosopher Galen of Pergamum appears to have coined the term rheumatismos, in which rheuma means "to flow" (an alternative meaning is "phlegm").
The quick is sometimes thought to be simple but that isn't always the case: a clue may simply say "draw", but that's a word whose alternative meanings command a whole column in any thesaurus.
"If you have more proportionate alternatives, meaning they do less damage to EU freedoms, you have to go for them," he continued.
But AT&T also said it would "explore financial and strategic alternatives," meaning that it probably will bow to shareholder sentiment and sell the cable unit to the highest bidder.
Alternative meanings were examined by means of comparisons between focus group sessions (using transcripts from different focus groups relating to similar issues) or by relying on researchers' theories and/or concepts.
The English vocabulary has too many synonyms, homonyms and alternative meanings for a machine to guess what, exactly, a speaker's individual utterances mean.
