About The Word Elective
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Elective
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What's The Definition Of Elective?
[adj] subject to popular election; "elective official"
[adj] not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study" Synonyms | Synonyms for Elective: elected | electoral | nonappointive | optional Related Terms | Find terms related to Elective: academic specialty | adoptive | alternative | appointive | arbitrary | area | autonomous | choosing | choosy | classical education | constituent | core curriculum | course | course of study | curriculum | discipline | discretional | discretionary | discriminating | disjunctive | eclectic | electoral | field | free | free will | general education | general studies | gratuitous | humanities | independent | liberal arts | major | minor | nonmandatory | offered | optional | particular | proffered | proseminar | quadrivium | refresher course | scientific education | selecting | selective | self-acting | self-active | self-determined | self-determining | seminar | specialty | spontaneous | study | subdiscipline | subject | technical education | trivium | unasked | unbesought | unbidden | uncalled-for | uncoerced | uncompelled | unforced | uninfluenced | uninvited | unpressured | unprompted | unrequested | unrequired | unsolicited | unsought | volitional | voluntary | volunteer | willful See Also | Elective In Webster's Dictionary \E*lect"ive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]lectif.]
1. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective
act.
2. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of
choosing; electoral.
The independent use of their elective franchise.
--Bancroft.
3. Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as,
an elective study; an elective office.
Kings of Rome were at first elective; . . . for such
are the conditions of an elective kingdom. --Dryden.
{Elective affinity} or {attraction} (Chem.), a tendency to
unite with certain things; chemism.
\E*lect"ive\, n. In an American college, an optional study or course of study. [Colloq.] |
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