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elective

/ih-lek-tiv/US // ɪˈlɛk tɪv //UK // (ɪˈlɛktɪv) //

选修课,选修,选修课程,选择性

Related Words

electoral选举,选举人,竞选,選舉constituent组成人员,组成,构成,成分voting投票,投票表决,投票权,投票决定voluntary自愿,志愿,自愿的,志愿服务discretionary酌情,酌定,斟酌决定,酌定的optional可选,可选的,可选择的,自选selective选择性,选择性的,有选择的,有选择地facultative脸谱化的,脸谱化,脸盆式,脸盆式的nonobligatory非强制性的,非义务性的,非义务性,非强制性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
    • : chosen by election, as an official.
    • : bestowed by or derived from election, as an office.
    • : having the power or right of electing to office, as a body of persons.
    • : open to choice; optional; not required: an elective subject in college; elective surgery.
    • : Chemistry. selecting for combination or action; tending to combine with certain substances in preference to others: elective attraction.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an optional study; a course that a student may select from among alternatives.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.able to be chosen
Synonyms
electoral选举,选举人,竞选,選舉constituent组成人员,组成,构成,成分voluntary自愿,志愿,自愿的,志愿服务voting投票,投票表决,投票权,投票决定discretionary酌情,酌定,斟酌决定,酌定的facultative脸谱化的,脸谱化,脸盆式,脸盆式的nonobligatory非强制性的,非义务性的,非义务性,非强制性not compulsory非强制性,非义务性,不强制要求,非强制optional可选,可选的,可选择的,自选selective选择性,选择性的,有选择的,有选择地

Examples

  • Ballad Health, whose 21 hospitals serve that region, temporarily stopped all elective surgeries and set up mobile morgues.

  • Funding from Congress has provided some relief for hospital systems across the country, but many are losing money as a result of halting elective surgeries.

  • Clinical trials and elective procedures for other conditions have been put on hold.

  • Typically, the most profitable services hospitals offer are elective procedures, such as hip replacements or knee surgeries.

  • Youngkin, 54, who in September retired as co-chief executive of the Washington private equity giant Carlyle Group, has never held elective office.

  • Not hard to imagine what drives this number – money, the ever swelling lubricant of elective office.

  • He has since put in place penalties for hospitals and surgeons that perform elective cesareans.

  • Really, sortition strikes at the tension at the heart of elective representative democracy.

  • But the O.R. has actually seen a huge decrease in elective surgeries.

  • It is not elective, it is not fun, and it certainly is not funny.

  • And of the world of to-day, be it remembered, elective democratic control covers only a part of the field.

  • If the wages are graded according to capacity, then the grading is done by the everlasting elective officials.

  • Since the house would not make the legislative council elective, he proposed to abolish it altogether.

  • At a later date they were nominated by the Wardens, though in earlier times probably elective.

  • Well, now, seigneur Councilman, august elective magistrate of the illustrious Commune of Laon!

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