Elective Definition

ĭ-lĕktĭv
electives
adjective
Of or relating to a selection by vote.
American Heritage
Filled by election.
An elective office.
Webster's New World
Chosen by election; elected.
Webster's New World
Of or based on election.
Webster's New World
Having the power to choose.
Webster's New World
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noun
electives
An optional course or subject in a school or college curriculum.
Webster's New World

Something that is option or that may be elected, especially a course of tertiary study.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • elective course

Other Word Forms of Elective

Noun

Singular:
elective
Plural:
electives

Elective Sentence Examples

  • The system of local self-government is continued, so far as the 34 governments of old Russia are concerned, 6 in the elective district and provincial assemblies (zemstvos).

  • The last section is partly elective and partly nominated.

  • There is also an elective general council.

  • Alfred de Musset was introduced, and the two natures leapt together as by elective affinity.

  • He summed up his results in the general statement that "hydrogen, the alkaline substances, the metals and certain metallic oxides are attracted by negatively electrified metallic surfaces, and repelled by positively electrified metallic surfaces; and contrariwise, that oxygen and acid substances are attracted by positively electrified metallic surfaces and repelled by negatively electrified metallic surfaces; and these attractive and repulsive forces are sufficiently energetic to destroy or suspend the usual operation of elective affinity."

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Words Starting With

EELELE

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EVEIVE

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