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elective

adjective as in able to be chosen

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Example Sentences

Not hard to imagine what drives this number – money, the ever swelling lubricant of elective office.

He has since put in place penalties for hospitals and surgeons that perform elective cesareans.

Really, sortition strikes at the tension at the heart of elective representative democracy.

But the O.R. has actually seen a huge decrease in elective surgeries.

It is not elective, it is not fun, and it certainly is not funny.

And of the world of to-day, be it remembered, elective democratic control covers only a part of the field.

If the wages are graded according to capacity, then the grading is done by the everlasting elective officials.

Since the house would not make the legislative council elective, he proposed to abolish it altogether.

At a later date they were nominated by the Wardens, though in earlier times probably elective.

Well, now, seigneur Councilman, august elective magistrate of the illustrious Commune of Laon!

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to elective, such as: electoral, constituent, voluntary, voting, discretionary, and facultative.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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