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elective
Part of speech: AdjectiveAppointed or governed by choice; using the power of choice.
Part of speech: NounOne of several courses offered by a school or college among which a student may choose.
Usage examples "elective":- The governing authorities are the President, the Executive Council, and the Volksraad or elective popular assembly. - "Impressions of South Africa", James Bryce.
- Teachers offering elective courses are constantly under great temptation and students are shrewd enough to know it. - "On the Firing Line in Education", Adoniram Judson Ladd.
- Then, to make their control complete, as they thought, they have made most of their new officers elective. - "Community Civics and Rural Life", Arthur W. Dunn.