1 available to someone by choice, without having to get permission or authority:
2 used to describe an amount of money in a budget that can be reduced if necessary:
3 allowed or decided according to what is considered suitable in a particular situation:
4 relating to an arrangement in which an investment manager or broker has the authority to make investment decisions without instructions from their client:
For example, can the ethic of care be easily incorporated into legislation, or might it ultimately be too discretionary to capture within legal rules?
Regime theories suggest that a partisan agenda will strongly influence personnel decisions, which include discretionary military command appointments.
Pre-government, the childless had between 11.65 and 40.34 more hours a week of 'discretionary time' than their with-children counterparts.
The training needs of lone parents may, however, be assessed with some discretionary grants available.
In this demanding moral context, ultimate hopes are neither trivial nor discretionary.
Their reason was simple : the proposed vaccination law granted too much discretionary power to the president and his minions.
The impact of welfare-gender regimes is measured by the difference between post-government and pre-government discretionary time.
This figure describes the impact of welfare-gender regimes on the discretionary time of prime workingaged parents in two-earner couples.
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