Usually means: Optional course chosen by student.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word elective:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. elective: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elective, elective: Wordnik
  7. elective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elective: Wiktionary
  9. elective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. elective: Dictionary.com
  13. elective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Elective (medical), Elective: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Elective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. elective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. elective: Rhymezone
  18. Elective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. elective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. elective: Free Dictionary
  21. elective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. elective: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. elective: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elective: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elective: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. elective: Medical dictionary
  5. Elective: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

(Note: See electively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
adjective:  Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
adjective:  (US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
noun:  Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.

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