DISCRETIONARY


Meaning of DISCRETIONARY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

discretionary income

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

award

Hon. Members must recall that these are, after all, discretionary awards .

They can, however, apply for a discretionary award from their local education authority.

If authorities are failing to increase their spending on discretionary awards commensurately, that is their decision.

decision

This gives rise to discretionary decisions by adjudicators and administrators, undermining generality and discrediting the ideal of the rule of law.

He gives to Adam the discretionary decision as to whether to pass the letter along to Hetty.

fund

The combined new firm has discretionary funds of more than £4 billion under management, to which Bell Lawrie contributes about half.

Still, the new managers did have some discretionary funds and resources for distribution.

McIntosh worked in the discretionary fund management operation of the firm and also looked after the dealing and institutional sales side.

Such a body may also be more consistent in applying discretionary funds for research and innovative practice.

grant

Funding themselves through training remains a problem for many students, given the virtual demise of discretionary grants .

In the sixth year they would have to seek discretionary grants .

The Minister may also refer to the discretionary grants from local education authorities.

Twenty-five percent of the funds would go for discretionary grants , with the protected communities also having access to this money.

Those without a formula entitlement, both inside and outside metropolitan areas, would have to rely on discretionary grants .

income

I had a party today and used the discretionary income for it as a token of my approval.

They have a lot of flexible time and a lot have discretionary income .

As discretionary income moves from the young to the old, advertising will follow it.

life

That was a case concerning discretionary life sentences and the remarks in the case must be read in that context.

The courts may also impose a discretionary life sentence for certain other serious crimes.

Mr. Handscomb and the other applicants for judicial review were serving discretionary life sentences.

I would also hold that he was not obliged to do so in discretionary life sentence cases.

I shall consider later what was then said by Mr. Hurd about discretionary life sentences.

power

Under a trust for sale the trustees obviously can sell, and they are given by statute a discretionary power to retain.

The newspapers argued that while the judge had discretionary power , he could not ban cameras completely.

In line with the services provided by other governmental agencies much local government activity occurs through the medium of discretionary powers .

How is the force organized and how extensive is its discretionary power ?

Nothing was done to arrest this by the local council, which had discretionary powers to do so.

He accepted that the court did, under section 82, have the wide discretionary power of rectification contended for.

Much the same is true of the discretionary powers of the police.

Everything is scripted for you; there is no room to use your mind or exercise discretionary power .

trust

We have also been influenced by representations about the position of privately owned companies held on discretionary trusts .

Wealth Protector, which combines a discretionary trust with a choice of investment plans.

There may, for instance, be a foreign discretionary trust which wishes to acquire a lease in the United Kingdom.

Mr X gives property to an overseas discretionary trust .

The trust was a discretionary trust.

Thus discretionary trusts have lost many of their fiscal advantages.

He transfers assets to a discretionary trust .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Judges have discretionary powers over sentencing of criminals.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As a result, the discretionary powers of sentencers remained largely unconstrained and out of control.

In the sixth year they would have to seek discretionary grants.

It would mean cutting discretionary domestic programs by one-third, but Dole does not specify how he would do this.

Still, the new managers did have some discretionary funds and resources for distribution.

Such laws frequently confer considerable discretionary authority on public administrators.

The timing of all subsequent follow up appointments and endoscopies in the healing phase was discretionary .

This gives rise to discretionary decisions by adjudicators and administrators, undermining generality and discrediting the ideal of the rule of law.

We have also been influenced by representations about the position of privately owned companies held on discretionary trusts.

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