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Synonyms for discretionary

Grammar : Adj
Spell : dih-skresh-uh-ner-ee
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈskrɛʃ əˌnɛr i


Définition of discretionary

Origin :
  • 1680s (implied in discretionarily); see discretion + -ary.
  • adj open to choice
Example sentences :
  • With me, of course, his powers were discretionary—or rather, had no discretion whatever.
  • Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
  • The persons entrusted with them have no discretionary power.
  • Extract from : « Strictures on Nullification » by Alexander Hill Everett
  • It may be needless to add that a discretionary power was then extended to him.
  • Extract from : « Random Shots From a Rifleman » by John Kincaid
  • But the exercise of the active right of legation is discretionary.
  • Extract from : « International Law. A Treatise. Volume I (of 2) » by Lassa Francis Oppenheim
  • Take away from the court the discretionary power to discharge, and the writ is rendered an idle form.
  • Extract from : « A Letter to the Hon. Samuel Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. » by Hancock
  • The government gave Hull discretionary power for invading Canada.
  • Extract from : « Sustained honor » by John R. Musick,
  • Remedies in this field are discretionary and the law not inflexible.
  • Extract from : « Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster » by Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
  • If the jurisdiction does go so far, it must be discretionary, as the grant of declarations always is.
  • Extract from : « Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster » by Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
  • Servants had also discretionary power in the disposal of property.
  • Extract from : « The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus » by American Anti-Slavery Society
  • He had declared that he conceived the House could exercise no discretionary power when about to pass an appropriation bill.
  • Extract from : « Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) » by Thomas Hart Benton

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