elective
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4.5
- adjective
- /ɪˈlɛktɪv/
:
optativo (educación)
- Many high schools now offer elective classes that allow students to explore creative subjects like art and music.
- elective courses
- elective class
- elective surgery
Where art has become an elective rather than an imperative.
- Where art has become an elective rather than an imperative.
- What are the risks with like either one or do we do elective C-section?
- So what was Kentucky doing around reducing early elective delivery?
- We actually chose to introduce some private sector companies in to provide a bit of challenge around elective surgery and to start to make change.
- Typically on our elective days we'll do things like hernias, gallbladders, but also things like breast cancer or thyroid cancer.
Examples
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I understand some of you are here to satisfy your Liberal Arts elective requirements.
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One member of the Completers group mentioned wanting more interactions with professors and more elective classes in the curriculum.
Academic text (2015) -
The content of required and elective programs may be quite different.
Academic text (1995) -
You understand that this is an elective procedure.
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Have you taken physical education as an elective course after meeting your graduation requirements?
Academic text (1995) -
Question 1 asked students if they had taken an elective physical education course after meeting their graduation requirements.
Academic text (1995) -
I took an elective course on neurocognition - in dream content.
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Music offerings at the secondary level are often elective and generally performance-oriented.
Academic text (1994) -
The program did include an elective course available in 11th and 12th grades that covered contraception.
Academic text (1994) -
We recommend wearable tech become a programmatic component of any elective course on IT entrepreneurship.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
Not required and left to each person's choice
Antonyms
Compounds
How Optional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word elective comes from the Latin root eligere meaning 'to choose' and shares the same root as elect ('chosen'). So when something is elective it is optional — you choose it, not someone else.