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adj. Of or relating to a selection by vote.

adj. Filled or obtained by election: elective office.

adj. Having the power or authority to elect; electoral.

adj. Permitting or involving a choice; optional: elective surgery.

n. An optional academic course or subject.

adj. Of, or pertaining to voting or elections

adj. That involves a choice between options; optional or discretionary

n. Something that is option or that may be elected, especially a course of tertiary study.

adj. Exerting the power of choice; selecting.

adj. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.

adj. Bestowed or passing by election

adj. Dependent on choice; that can be refused. Opposite of required or mandatory.

n. In an American college, an optional study or course of study; a course that is not required.

Chosen by election; dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election: as, an elective monarchy (one in which the king is raised to the throne by election); the office is elective: opposed to hereditary, or to tenure by appointment.

Pertaining or relating to or consisting in the choice or right of choosing by vote: as, the elective principle in government; the elective franchise.

Exerting the power of choice.

Selecting for combination: as, an elective attraction, which is a tendency in bodies to unite with certain kinds of matter in preference to other kinds.

n. In the colleges of the United States, an optional study; any one of a number of studies from which the scholar is allowed to select that which he prefers.

n. a course that the student can select from among alternatives

adj. subject to popular election

adj. not compulsory

"DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Wolf, well, the vice president's office tells us that he's going to have what they call elective surgery, to remove an aneurysm in the artery behind his right knee, and that is going to happen next weekend, according to top aide, Steve Schmidt."

nonappointive    electoral    optional    elective attraction   

course    course of instruction    class    course of study   

elective affinity    elective franchise   

election    elect   

selecting    electoral   

affective    anti-infective    collective    connective    convective    corrective    defective    detective    directive    effective   

hereditary    deliberative    advisory    secular    municipal    legislative    theocratic    constitutional    endovascular    provincial