Usually means: Optional, based on personal judgment.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. discretionary: Merriam-Webster
  2. discretionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discretionary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discretionary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discretionary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discretionary, discretionary: Wordnik
  7. discretionary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discretionary: Wiktionary
  9. discretionary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discretionary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discretionary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. discretionary: Dictionary.com
  13. Discretionary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. discretionary: Rhymezone
  15. Discretionary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. discretionary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. discretionary: FreeDictionary.org
  18. discretionary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. discretionary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. discretionary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. discretionary: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. DISCRETIONARY: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  7. discretionary: Legal dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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

Similar:
discretional, arbitrary, unrestricted, disposable, facultative, choiceful, dative, elective, arbitrary and capricious, choosable, more...

Opposite:
mandatory, compulsory, required, non-negotiable

Types:
elective, optional, non-compulsory, not required, more...

Phrases:
discretionary income, discretionary spending, Discretionary trust, discretionary trusts, discretionary accounts, more...

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Similar:
discretional, arbitrary, unrestricted, disposable, facultative, choiceful, dative, elective, arbitrary and capricious, choosable, more...

Opposite:
mandatory, compulsory, required, non-negotiable

Types:
elective, optional, non-compulsory, not required, more...

Phrases:
discretionary income, discretionary spending, Discretionary trust, discretionary trusts, discretionary accounts, discretionary account, discretionary cost, discretionary hyphen, consumer discretionary, more...

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     gray,     olive,     burgundy, more...



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