discretionary

IPA: dɪskrˈɛʃʌnɛri

Available at one's discretion; able to be used as one chooses; left to or regulated by one's own discretion or judgment.

Examples of "discretionary" in Sentences

This deals with what we call discretionary spending.
Mr. Frenzel talked about 4 percent in what he called discretionary spending.
So, really, only one-third of the pie is what we call discretionary spending.
The courts have what they call discretionary powers, but the church has none.
Then, again, the courts have what they term discretionary grounds for divorce.
VELSHI: Is my own personal Aunt Erika going to have the same view of what I call discretionary expenses?
So really only one-third of the pie is what we call discretionary spending and you can identify with this in your own budget, where there's some things that have to be paid, and there's some things you can play with.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently published a jarring report on what it calls discretionary service spending, a category that excludes housing, food and health care and includes restaurant meals, entertainment, education and even insurance.
So, he's looking at a very small part of the budget, it's what we call discretionary domestic programs or the stuff they have to appropriate every year, and that's being held at least in his budget to about a one percent -- little less than one percent increase, but you get so few savings that it has virtually no impact on the deficit at all.