The phrase "alternative to fair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing options or choices that provide a different approach or solution compared to what is considered fair.
Example: "In this debate, we need to explore the alternative to fair practices in order to find a more effective solution."
Alternatives: "substitute for fair" or "replacement for fair".
The rich and powerful see cutting the public services they do not use as the alternative to fair tax.
What nobody in any of these corners would ever advocate is state spending as an alternative to fair wage settlements.
That meant mark-to-market losses immediately showed up in their income statements.The alternative to fair value holding assets at historic cost has few admirers.
This close relationship with farmers is called "direct trade" and something many point to as an alternative to Fair Trade.
RiskData, a consultancy, studied more than 1,000 hedge funds and concluded that nearly a third of funds trading illiquid securities were smoothing the results of their models, so as to iron out too much volatility in their books.Unfortunately, the alternatives to fair-value accounting can be worse.
Where is the market-based health-care plan?" August 2013: August brings another spin of the "Republicans need an alternative!" to "Not fair, we have lots of alternatives!" cycle.
Talk at Spring 1883 was all about how the rooms at the Windsor offered an alternative to Melbourne Art Fair's corporate white boxes and simulated the domestic living room of your average collector (if that collector lived in suites of floral drapes, antique furniture, striped wallpaper and a full-sized sculpture of an upended horse on a couch in the living room).
The market is picking up again, the former Dia space now has commercial galleries on the ground floor, and the "alternative" to the art-fair model is on its way to becoming a new paradigm.
But I like to consider that part of the fun, sort of winter's alternative to a brassy summer fair.
Most citizens support a democratic rise in the gas tax as a more fair alternative to Governor Corzine's peculiar idea of maintaining a few toll roads that are the equivalent of a "penalty box".
"In the long term we aim to provide a fair alternative to companies such as Wonga, but it will take many years for us to reach the scale that would allow us to offer our products to the growing number of financially excluded people in the UK".
