discretionary
音标：
美音：/dɪˈskreʃəneri/，英音：/dɪˈskreʃənəri/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
This put billions of dollars of discretionary spending power in the hands of stockholders, driving prices higher for consumers than they would have otherwise.
这将数十亿美元的可自由支配的消费能力置于股东手中，推动消费者的价格高于他们本来应该拥有的价格。
—Washington Post
There are also financial incentives for production companies through UK tax credits and discretionary funding that Northern Ireland Screen uses to augment that.
通过英国税收抵免和北爱尔兰银幕用来增加的可自由支配资金，制作公司也可以获得财务激励。
—BBC
The social media giant also will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through March in a bid to become “leaner and more efficient,” Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a Wednesday statement.
Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格 (Mark Zuckerberg) 在周三的一份声明中表示，这家社交媒体巨头还将削减可自由支配的支出，并将招聘冻结期延长至 3 月，以期变得“更精简、更高效”。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
adjective
having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment
adj. 自由决定的，酌情决定的；代表委托人全权进行投资的
同义词：
discretional
短释义：
Discretionary means it’s up to you to decide. Bathing regularly is a discretionary act, so you can opt not to do it if you want; note, however, that your friends might disagree with us on this.
自由裁量权意味着由您决定。定期洗澡是一种自由裁量的行为，因此您可以选择不这样做；但是请注意，您的朋友可能不同意我们的观点。
长释义：
Discretionary is often used to describe money that isn’t designated for a particular purpose. It’s up to the people in charge to decide how discretionary funds should be spent. Discretionary comes from the word discretion, which can be used to mean “the right to decide something based on one’s own judgment.” If you’re given a task to complete at your discretion, you can decide how you want to do it — or whether you want to do it at all.
Discretionary 通常用于描述未指定用于特定目的的资金。酌情使用的资金由负责人决定。 Discretionary 来自 discretion 一词，可以用来表示“根据自己的判断决定某事的权利”。如果你有一项任务要你自行决定完成，你可以决定你想怎么做——或者你是否想做。
文学例句：
She ruled that the EPA’s responsibility to make an endangerment finding was discretionary, not mandatory.
她裁定，EPA 做出危害发现的责任是酌情决定的，而不是强制性的。
—Living near an airport could be toxic by ???
Is this discretionary activity in an era of high youth unemployment, of decreasing social mobility?
在青年失业率高、社会流动性下降的时代，这种自由裁量活动是否可行？
—All the Southbank tribes need space – including skateboarders by Jude Kelly
Business at multiplexes and single-screen cinemas is unlikely to bounce back for weeks or even months, as infection fears linger and discretionary spending plunges.
由于对感染的担忧挥之不去且可自由支配的支出大幅下降，多厅影院和单屏影院的业务不太可能在数周甚至数月内反弹。
—Amazon Prime snags Bollywood premieres as pandemic closes theatres by Shilpa Jamkhandikar
词源：
discretionary (adj.)"left to discretion, restrained only by judgment," 1680s (implied in discretionarily); see discretion + -ary.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
discretionary (adj.)“留给自由裁量权，仅受判断约束”，1680 年代（暗指自由裁量权）；请参阅 discretion + -ary。相关条目及更多
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