0 the ability to behave without causing embarrassment or attracting too much attention, especially by keeping information secret: --
2 choice, or the right to make a choice, based on judgment: --
3 the right to choose something, or to choose to do something, according to what seems most suitable in a particular situation: --
Sales staff were given discretion to offer customers a 10% discount.
broad/complete/considerable discretion
leave it (up) to sb's discretion/leave it (up) to the discretion of sb Top-up insurance cover is left to the discretion of individuals and firms.
exercise/use (your) discretion Economic and institutional constraints can make it difficult for senior managers to exercise discretion in their decisions.
at sb's discretion/at the discretion of sb Payment in lieu of notice to redundant workers is at the company's discretion.
Nonetheless, those women who did understand the language could and should have reacted at their own discretion.
Every writer - student or professional is to his own discretion, and no two punctuate the same sentence or paragraph the same.
States also have discretion in designing sanction policies.
On the other hand, remedial discretion should not be seen as a substitute for defining the grounds of judicial review more carefully and narrowly.
The third meaning of the word" power" is" discretion".
The latitude for administrative discretion in individual cases surely encouraged rather than checked official corruption.
The response to the recognition of law's instrumental limitations, and to the growth of discretion, has been contradictory.
Why should this penalty be mandatory, and not at the discretion of the court as in other offences?
