Synonyms for discretionary
dɪˈskrɛʃ əˌnɛr idis·cre·tiona·ry

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1. discretionary, discretionaladjective

   having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment

   "The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds"

   Synonyms:
   discretional

   Antonyms:
   restricted, unarbitrary, nonarbitrary

2. discretionaryadjective

   (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed

   "discretionary funds"; "discretionary income"

   Synonyms:
   discretional

   Antonyms:
   unarbitrary, nonarbitrary, restricted

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1. discretionaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   optional

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1. List of paraphrases for "discretionary":

   discretional, judgemental, discretion, optional, judgmental, non-statutory, estimated

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1. Christian Nolting:

   Relationship managers coming over to us see this as an opportunity. Otherwise they wouldn't come, they consider our investment process and our discretionary performance, because if they want to bring clients over they need to ensure that they have a very interesting and well-working platform to be able to deliver. And that is the case.

2. James Smalley:

   The market is looking further and thinking that Air New Zealand may be affected if the slowdown in the Chinese economy does start to have an impact on discretionary spending on holidays.

3. Brian Fitzpatrick:

   Rather than have a numerical dollar amount – which doesn’t make any sense, we just end up raising it every other year – is convert it to something like a debt-to-GDP ratio, a number that could be agreed to, have a cure period thereafter. And if that cure does not occur, certain guardrails go up on discretionary spending.

4. Ron Johnson:

   What we ought to be doing is we ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so that it's all evaluated so that we can fix problems or fix programs that are broken that are going to be going bankrupt.

5. Chief Executive Terry Dennison:

   We are essentially a non-discretionary type spend, when there is a need people will invest in security.