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Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.

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  1. a. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
  2. a. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
  3. a. Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.
  4. n. In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
  5. adj. subject to popular election
  6. adj. optional
  7. n. a course that the student can select from among alternatives
  8. j:86/n:14 a. subject to popular election s. not compulsory