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Definition of Discretionary

1. Adjective. Having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment. "The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds"

2. Adjective. (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed. "Discretionary income"

Definition of Discretionary

1. Adjective. Available at one's discretion; able to be used as one chooses; left to or regulated by one's own discretion or judgment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Discretionary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Discretionary

discrete smallpox discrete time model discrete topology discrete variable discrete variables discretely discreteness discretenesses discreter discretion

discretion is the better part of valour discretional discretionally discretionaries discretionarily discretionary (current term) discretionary fiscal policy discretionary trust discretions discretisation

discretisations discretise discretised discretises discretising discretive discretively discretiveness discretization

Literary usage of Discretionary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"discretionary spending, which denotes programs controlled by annual ... The baseline projections depict the path of discretionary spending as a whole, ..."

2. Handbook of the Law of Trusts by George Gleason Bogert (1921)
"discretionary POWERS MAY NOT BE DELEGATED 95. The trustee may not delegate to agents the exercise of powers which involve the use of discretion and judgment ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"On the flrst Monday In May, 1903, the commissioners, having been differently advised, to wit, that the act was discretionary, re- voked so much of said ..."

4. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"discretionary. It is discretionary with the court to refuse to order a bill of particulars; and the refusal cannot be reviewed on error or appeal, ..."

5. A Trustee's Handbook by Augustus Peabody Loring (1907)
"does not convert the corresponding powers into "discretionary powers " properly so called, or oust the court of its control over the trustee's action.1 Thus ..."

6. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1905)
"discretionary Acts—When a public officer is vested with discretion, an injunction will not issue to restrain acts coming within the discretionary power ..."

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