“Managers have promised to find alternative roles within the company for as many of the laid-off staff as possible.”
“He finds mainstream music boring and chooses to write songs with alternative rhythms and harmonies instead.”
alternate
Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
(mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
“The club also launched the careers of bands like The Prodigy, Altern 8, Leftside and Moby.”
“New arrivals in the top 20, saw evapor 8 by Altern e 8 and ZZ Top's version of Viva Las Vegas come straight in at number ten and number 17 respectively.”
alternated
simple past tense and past participle of alternate