elective
/ɪˈlɛktɪv/ adjective B2- Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
- Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor. · After accounting for all of my required courses, there is hardly any room in my schedule for any elective ones.
- Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious). · It was very confusing hearing my cancer surgery being classified as "elective surgery". Am I "electing" to live rather than die?
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