discretional
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- discretionally adverb
Etymology
Origin of discretional
First recorded in 1650–60; discretion + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Rhondda Cynon Taf council said it would offer a £1,000 Community Flood Recovery Grant, additional to a Welsh government's scheme, for both residents and businesses, as well as discretional funding for flood-prevention measures.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
They asked agency officials to justify what they consider changes to the requirements for Afghans to prove they need parole despite the agency’s discretional authority.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2021
Being considered middle class when your discretional income has all but disappeared makes it difficult to keep up the pretense.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2016
In a Jan. 30 “Moneybox,” Matthew Yglesias wrote that federal sequestration would cut military programs by 16.3 percent and domestic discretional programs by 9.2 percent.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2013
This would leave Him with no discretional power whatever—with no such liberty even as that which He has bestowed upon every creature that has will, or anything like it.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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