Crossword-Solution: DISCRETIONARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discretionary | - | Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “DISCRETIONARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nonessential, as spending | 1 answer |
| DISCRETIONAL | 2 answers |
| freehold | 38 answers |
| despotic | 44 answers |
| Elective | 58 answers |
| Capricious | 70 answers |
| Eccentric | 113 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISCRETIONARY (5)
The secret wealth of commerce, and the precarious profits of art or labor, are susceptible only of a discretionary valuation, which is seldom disadvantageous to the interest of the treasury; and as the person of the trader supplies the want of a visible and permanent security, the payment of the imposition, which, in the case of a land tax, may be obtained by the seizure of property, can rarely be extorted by any other means than those of corporal punishments.
But as this discretionary power might alternately be abused by indulgence and tyranny, a rule of discipline was framed, to inform and regulate the spiritual judges.
They embraced the wise resolution of choosing six deputies or representatives, of whom Villehardouin was one, with a discretionary trust to direct the motions, and to pledge the faith, of the whole confederacy.
Whenever they were invested with a discretionary power, they used it much less for the oppression, than for the relief and benefit of the afflicted church.
The brief trial given this legislation amply justifies a further experiment and additional discretionary power in the making of commercial treaties, the end in view always to be the opening up of new markets for the products of our country, by granting concessions to the products of other lands that we need and cannot produce ourselves, and which do not involve any loss of labor to our own people, but tend to increase their employment.
Quotes with DISCRETIONARY (3)
The proposition that primitive dream imagery might reproduce, albeit imperfectly, the experience of one's ancestors, including their terrors, was rather too existentially charged for post-modern sensitivities, for which the meaningless hypothesis of memory de-junking was much more appealing. Even worse, the notion that one's own ideation, one's own monsters, or indeed oneself as a monster, might be transmitted forward to future generations threatened deeply assumptions about …
Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards!
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).