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US
/dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/
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[ UK /dɪskɹˈɛʃənəɹi/ ]
[ UK /dɪskɹˈɛʃənəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed
discretionary funds
discretionary income -
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
How To Use discretionary In A Sentence
- Families are switching their spending from essentials such as food and petrol to discretionary items as they treat themselves to little luxuries. Times, Sunday Times
- Hon. Members must recall that these are, after all, discretionary awards.
- The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds
- The rule of law operates as a bar to untrammelled discretionary power.
- As its name suggests, a discretionary will trust gives the trustees complete control over when the beneficiaries inherit. Times, Sunday Times
- After three years of increases in discretionary spending power, households are beginning to feel the squeeze. Times, Sunday Times
- It also virtually freezes funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security.
- Take, for example, the issue of the award of discretionary grants to students.
- Thus, the bank instructed simply to buy or sell securities has fewer fiduciary duties than if it is the manager of a discretionary fund.
- Secondly, they retained 25 percent of capitation monies outside the formula system for discretionary allocations.
