discretionary
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Left to individual judgement rather than fixed by rule.
Referral to the pain clinic was left as a discretionary decision for the receiving consultant.
Law adjective
Depending on the judgment of a decision-maker rather than arising as of right.
Leave outside the Rules is a discretionary grant that the Secretary of State may refuse.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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