Synonyms for discretionary
dɪˈskrɛʃ əˌnɛr idis·cre·tiona·ry

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1. discretionary, discretionaladjective

   having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment

   "The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds"

   Synonyms:
   discretional

   Antonyms:
   restricted, unarbitrary, nonarbitrary

2. discretionaryadjective

   (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed

   "discretionary funds"; "discretionary income"

   Synonyms:
   discretional

   Antonyms:
   unarbitrary, nonarbitrary, restricted

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1. discretionaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   optional

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1. List of paraphrases for "discretionary":

   discretional, judgemental, discretion, optional, judgmental, non-statutory, estimated

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1. Andrew Jezic:

   He was detained for 12 days, but then ICE made the discretionary decision to simply let him go. They put him on a plane in Texas and his father had to pay for the ticket. His father picked him up at BWI Airport and he's been in this country with the full awareness of ICE.

2. Art Hogan:

   If you back the lens up and say 'How has consumer discretionary done for the whole year and when did it top out?', it topped out right when we started to cycle into the things that hadn't been working.

3. Adam Smith:

   We do not have $600, $700, $800, $900 billion to spend on defense unless we pretty much completely eliminate all non-defense discretionary spending, which there isn’t support for doing, twenty trillion dollars in debt, a $706 billion deficit, trying to find $50 billion in mandatory savings, and the majority can’t even do that, all right?

4. William Bratton:

   We're coming out of what was a pretty widespread stoppage of certain types of activity, the discretionary type of activity, by and large.

5. Andrew Jezic:

   He was stopped at the border and detained by ICE, he was detained for 12 days, but then ICE made the discretionary decision to simply let him go. They put him on a plane in Texas and his father had to pay for the ticket. His father picked him up at BWI Airport and he's been in this country with the full awareness of ICE.