Definition of elective in English:

elective

adjective ɪˈlɛktɪvəˈlɛktɪv

1Related to or working by means of election.
（有关）选举的；靠选举运作的
an elective democracy
推行选举的民主国家。
Example sentencesExamples
- Looking back on it all many years later in their old age, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his former antagonist John Adams, ‘an elective despotism was not what we fought for’.
- In this sense, the Scottish system has turned Westminster's elective dictatorship upside down.
- Instead, we suffer a good deal more from elective dictatorship, with prime ministers and premiers able to shape the political agenda with a freer hand.
- Buchanan, however, reworked the entire argument in a classical idiom to define an elective form of monarchy and make it axiomatic that kings were accountable to those who elected them.
- I have never been in local government in an elective sense, but I have always had a great regard for it, for the authenticity that comes from proximity to the people and their very real problems.
- Other elective procedures are run as they should be.
- Good thing, then, that elective democracy has a built-in mechanism for removing him.
- However, as the new elective rules bed in this issue will be kept under review.
- Perceptive though he was, he never envisaged or understood the prospect of this strange international bureaucracy that is incorrectable by elective mechanism and barely subject to laws.
- In the 1990s, Lesotho began a new period of elective government.
- It deals with, among many other things, the conflict between hereditary and elective principles and the constitutional problems of a second chamber.
- Jumping into elective politics, Hilleary made an unsuccessful run for the state senate in 1992.
- This trend towards party government has been referred to as elective dictatorship.
- They also believed that the democratic element of an elective National Assembly should be balanced by a second chamber or senate whose members sat for life.
- Poland was Europe's most important elective monarchy.
- It may have a constitutional role, as a check (however fragile) against the elective dictatorship of a temporary majority of MPs in the Commons.
- But I say to them that elective dictatorship only occurs when we disregard moral and political imperatives.
- I regard the Senate, along with the High Court, as the two principal features of Australia's governmental structure preventing us from degenerating into an elective dictatorship.
- The Hopi elective government have fought for defense of their original reservation, while traditionalists support the Navajo families' efforts to remain on the disputed lands.
- The elective principle itself, Tocqueville notes, forces an ambitious man to appeal beyond the confines of his family and friends for votes.
1. 1.1 (of a person or office) appointed or filled by election.
  （人，职位）选任的，由选举产生的
  he had never held elective office
  他从未担任过任何由选举产生的公职。
  the National Assembly, with 125 elective members
  由125个选举出来的成员组成的国民议会。
  Example sentencesExamples
  George Will notes the steadily increasing ranks of African-American Republicans holding significant elective and appointive office.
  Under state statute, Daschle would no longer be eligible to hold elective office in South Dakota or represent it in Washington.
  Swett battled for the full reform program: to make everything, even the mayoralty, an appointive rather than an elective office.
  A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective.
  When the government introduced an elective element into the Legislative Council in 1842, no bar was placed on the participation of ex-convicts.
  And that's the decision whether to stand for the nation's highest elective office or not.
  Sinclair had never held elective office, though he had previously run for governor on the Socialist Party ticket.
  And yet, its new Republican governor is perhaps the freest-thinking holder of high elective office in the entire nation.
  Congress is Thune's first elective office, but he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1997 with experience in several jobs that gave him a solid grounding in federal, state and local government.
  Further, through its political arm, the ATLU began successfully contesting the small number of seats in the legislature that were elective.
  However Charles saw Exclusion of the rightful heir as changing the monarchy from a hereditary, divinely appointed institution into an elective, limited office that could soon give way to a new commonwealth.
  Republican women hold forty-one state elective offices, and Democrats, forty-three.
  Due to this, we don't have an elective member to represent us.
  The sort of people who run for elective office just don't do that sort of thing.
  At the same time, both men said they were the person to represent the majority-minority district and that ethnicity is not the only prerequisite for elective office.
  In addition, while Dole faced criticism that she had no prior elective experience, there was scant attention paid to the dearth of women in executive positions of power in the United States.
  After Michael's death in a ski accident at year's end, Joe decided to exit elective office altogether.
  Collins, who had never held elective office, proved to be a better campaigner in 1996 than she had been in 1994.
  And so, for the first time in 12 years, he found himself out of elective office without a certain next step.
  Krugman is not a journalist by training, and he's never held appointive or elective office.
  Synonyms
  elected, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned
2. 1.2 (of a body or position) possessing or giving the power to elect.
  （机构，职位）有选举权的；可赋予选举权的
  powerful Emperors manipulated the elective body
  权力强大的君主操纵了选举机构。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In giving the elective power to the states, the framers of the Constitution hoped to protect state independence.
  If we cannot elect men with sufficient education and honor even to try to be wise, we can number in a few score the years in which the elective power will remain ours.
  For it is an elementary proposition that if a vote is not cast for one of the two highest candidates it is completely shorn of its elective power.
  They cower down and allow him to dictate the pace rather than being an elective body.
2(of surgical or medical treatment) chosen by the patient rather than urgently necessary.
（手术或药物治疗）非急需的，可做可不做的
elective surgery
Example sentencesExamples
- Spontaneous abortion refers to pregnancy loss at less than 20 weeks' gestation in the absence of elective medical or surgical measures to terminate the pregnancy.
- This was why the decision had been made to centralise elective orthopaedics at Waterford Regional Hospital.
- Nutritional deprivation in patients who have elective gastrointestinal surgical procedures is a normal practice.
- This is a serious look at America's extreme body modifiers - think tongue splitting, elective amputation and the like.
- Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section?
- About 3,500 elective procedures take place in hospitals every week and many cannot proceed without the availability of a blood transfusion.
- They probably have fewer high-tech machines than we do, and the comparative cost figures may be skewed by the American love of elective procedures.
- The reduction in hospital stay was present in all subgroups and most pronounced in the patients undergoing elective surgery for aneurysm who received transfusions.
- Music's soothing effects have been demonstrated in patients undergoing chemotherapy or elective surgery under local or regional anesthesia.
- Dr Ryan also made it clear that it was not intended that elective surgery would be carried out in Castlebar but that a new specialist unit would be established to cater for elective work for the region at Merlin Park hospital.
Synonyms
voluntary, non-compulsory, at one's discretion, discretionary, not required, up to the individual, non-mandatory, free, open, unforced
1. 2.1 (of a course of study) chosen by the student rather than compulsory.
  （课程）选修的
  elective courses on this subject have always been oversubscribed
  Example sentencesExamples
  All the subjects were recruited by instructors who taught elective courses at each campus.
  Now in college, he is taking a very good course - elective, not required - focused on the roots of Western culture.
  And if psychology is taught in high school, it is offered typically as an elective course.
  About 65 percent of schools integrate communication skill development into several required and elective courses throughout the curriculum.
  A six week elective course on smoking cessation, which aimed to encourage cessation and provide how-to-quit strategies, was also constructed.
  Well, I'm lazy and my memories of elective university classes are a bit hazy so I had hoped not to, but here we go.
  In terms of an agreement with the Ministry of Education, it is recognised as an elective course.
  The subject group was comprised of 20 sixth-year medical students who joined the four-week elective course in Oriental psychosomatic medicine.
  What if each school and college offered an elective course in pedagogy to prepare students for this education-based practice experience?
  She expressed disappointment when told that with advance notice our nursing program could have designed learning activities to provide her with an elective course credit for her summer work.
  Temple currently offers a variety of elective classes, focusing on everything from commercial real estate and residential property management to real estate law.
  Pharmacy ranked last in permitting overseas research for its faculty members and allowing degree-candidate students to take elective study abroad courses.
  The survey was pre-tested by students enrolled in an elective course.
  All classes used for recruitment were general elective courses that attracted a diverse cross-section of male and female college students.
  One physics department in Kenya allows its students to take an elective course in entrepreneurship offered by the university's business division.
  Students may be able to earn an elective credit course within their nursing program for their independent study experience at camp.
  A student research program is conducted concurrently with the elective courses - students with something to say are encouraged to say it.
  On the other hand, students taking the elective course do so by virtue of a preference, and generally ability, for the subject matter.
  The students enrolled in this elective course range from advanced placement to general studies.
  Various chapters may also be interesting to Master's degree students taking specialized elective courses in strategy.

noun ɪˈlɛktɪvəˈlɛktɪv

North American

An optional course of study.
〈主北美〉选修课程
Example sentencesExamples
- And while there are three automotive mechanics facilities in the district, none are used heavily and power mechanics, as an elective, has disappeared entirely in Richmond.
- As I progressed through school, I chose art classes for electives in junior high and high school because that's what I enjoyed.
- The research course, as well as the guided electives, are taught outside the department with collaborating faculty in teacher education, educational leadership, and social work.
- I'm taking a reading elective this month, interspersed with some Oncology cross-cover.
- He chose a philosophy minor, and several courses in classics as electives.
- We had one elective every day, and had four electives in all, one of them repeating.
- For year-round students, the academy offers a full curriculum of requirements and electives, including French.
- The curriculum includes five courses and five electives.
- In a trade-off, though, Tech College offers far fewer electives, or curricular freedom of any sort.

Derivatives

electively

adverb

The patient was taken electively to the operating room where a 7.5 cm x 5 cm x 4 cm hard, nodular tumor mass was resected from the neck and anterior mediastinum.
Example sentencesExamples
- Potentially curative resection was achieved in about 70% of patients presenting electively; the curative resection rate was lower in those presenting as emergencies.
- I seek leave to table information from the Health Information Service that shows that the number of people treated electively has gone up from 68,000 in 2001 to 114,000 in 2004.
- Adequate preoperative planning, scheduling surgery electively as opposed to emergency and improving nutritional status may be helpful.
- Surgeons often electively repair abdominal aortic aneurysms that measure 4 to 5.5 cm in diameter even though the long-term survival benefit of early elective surgery is uncertain.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French electif, -ive, from late Latin electivus, from elect- 'picked out', from the verb eligere (see elect).

Definition of elective in US English:

elective

adjectiveəˈlɛktɪvəˈlektiv

1Related to or working by means of election.
（有关）选举的；靠选举运作的
an elective democracy
推行选举的民主国家。
Example sentencesExamples
- Looking back on it all many years later in their old age, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his former antagonist John Adams, ‘an elective despotism was not what we fought for’.
- I have never been in local government in an elective sense, but I have always had a great regard for it, for the authenticity that comes from proximity to the people and their very real problems.
- This trend towards party government has been referred to as elective dictatorship.
- But I say to them that elective dictatorship only occurs when we disregard moral and political imperatives.
- Good thing, then, that elective democracy has a built-in mechanism for removing him.
- Jumping into elective politics, Hilleary made an unsuccessful run for the state senate in 1992.
- The Hopi elective government have fought for defense of their original reservation, while traditionalists support the Navajo families' efforts to remain on the disputed lands.
- They also believed that the democratic element of an elective National Assembly should be balanced by a second chamber or senate whose members sat for life.
- In the 1990s, Lesotho began a new period of elective government.
- I regard the Senate, along with the High Court, as the two principal features of Australia's governmental structure preventing us from degenerating into an elective dictatorship.
- The elective principle itself, Tocqueville notes, forces an ambitious man to appeal beyond the confines of his family and friends for votes.
- Perceptive though he was, he never envisaged or understood the prospect of this strange international bureaucracy that is incorrectable by elective mechanism and barely subject to laws.
- In this sense, the Scottish system has turned Westminster's elective dictatorship upside down.
- Poland was Europe's most important elective monarchy.
- Buchanan, however, reworked the entire argument in a classical idiom to define an elective form of monarchy and make it axiomatic that kings were accountable to those who elected them.
- However, as the new elective rules bed in this issue will be kept under review.
- It deals with, among many other things, the conflict between hereditary and elective principles and the constitutional problems of a second chamber.
- Other elective procedures are run as they should be.
- It may have a constitutional role, as a check (however fragile) against the elective dictatorship of a temporary majority of MPs in the Commons.
- Instead, we suffer a good deal more from elective dictatorship, with prime ministers and premiers able to shape the political agenda with a freer hand.
1. 1.1 (of a person or office) appointed or filled by election.
  （人，职位）选任的，由选举产生的
  he had never held elective office
  他从未担任过任何由选举产生的公职。
  the National Assembly, with 125 elective members
  由125个选举出来的成员组成的国民议会。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Further, through its political arm, the ATLU began successfully contesting the small number of seats in the legislature that were elective.
  Swett battled for the full reform program: to make everything, even the mayoralty, an appointive rather than an elective office.
  The sort of people who run for elective office just don't do that sort of thing.
  And that's the decision whether to stand for the nation's highest elective office or not.
  And so, for the first time in 12 years, he found himself out of elective office without a certain next step.
  Due to this, we don't have an elective member to represent us.
  Congress is Thune's first elective office, but he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1997 with experience in several jobs that gave him a solid grounding in federal, state and local government.
  When the government introduced an elective element into the Legislative Council in 1842, no bar was placed on the participation of ex-convicts.
  Krugman is not a journalist by training, and he's never held appointive or elective office.
  Collins, who had never held elective office, proved to be a better campaigner in 1996 than she had been in 1994.
  George Will notes the steadily increasing ranks of African-American Republicans holding significant elective and appointive office.
  In addition, while Dole faced criticism that she had no prior elective experience, there was scant attention paid to the dearth of women in executive positions of power in the United States.
  After Michael's death in a ski accident at year's end, Joe decided to exit elective office altogether.
  Sinclair had never held elective office, though he had previously run for governor on the Socialist Party ticket.
  Under state statute, Daschle would no longer be eligible to hold elective office in South Dakota or represent it in Washington.
  A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective.
  However Charles saw Exclusion of the rightful heir as changing the monarchy from a hereditary, divinely appointed institution into an elective, limited office that could soon give way to a new commonwealth.
  Republican women hold forty-one state elective offices, and Democrats, forty-three.
  And yet, its new Republican governor is perhaps the freest-thinking holder of high elective office in the entire nation.
  At the same time, both men said they were the person to represent the majority-minority district and that ethnicity is not the only prerequisite for elective office.
  Synonyms
  elected, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned
2. 1.2 (of a body or position) possessing or giving the power to elect.
  （机构，职位）有选举权的；可赋予选举权的
  Example sentencesExamples
  If we cannot elect men with sufficient education and honor even to try to be wise, we can number in a few score the years in which the elective power will remain ours.
  They cower down and allow him to dictate the pace rather than being an elective body.
  In giving the elective power to the states, the framers of the Constitution hoped to protect state independence.
  For it is an elementary proposition that if a vote is not cast for one of the two highest candidates it is completely shorn of its elective power.
2(of surgical or medical treatment) chosen by the patient rather than urgently necessary.
（手术或药物治疗）非急需的，可做可不做的
Example sentencesExamples
- Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section?
- Nutritional deprivation in patients who have elective gastrointestinal surgical procedures is a normal practice.
- Spontaneous abortion refers to pregnancy loss at less than 20 weeks' gestation in the absence of elective medical or surgical measures to terminate the pregnancy.
- They probably have fewer high-tech machines than we do, and the comparative cost figures may be skewed by the American love of elective procedures.
- The reduction in hospital stay was present in all subgroups and most pronounced in the patients undergoing elective surgery for aneurysm who received transfusions.
- This was why the decision had been made to centralise elective orthopaedics at Waterford Regional Hospital.
- About 3,500 elective procedures take place in hospitals every week and many cannot proceed without the availability of a blood transfusion.
- This is a serious look at America's extreme body modifiers - think tongue splitting, elective amputation and the like.
- Music's soothing effects have been demonstrated in patients undergoing chemotherapy or elective surgery under local or regional anesthesia.
- Dr Ryan also made it clear that it was not intended that elective surgery would be carried out in Castlebar but that a new specialist unit would be established to cater for elective work for the region at Merlin Park hospital.
Synonyms
voluntary, non-compulsory, at one's discretion, discretionary, not required, up to the individual, non-mandatory, free, open, unforced
1. 2.1 (of a course of study) chosen by the student rather than compulsory.
  （课程）选修的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In terms of an agreement with the Ministry of Education, it is recognised as an elective course.
  Students may be able to earn an elective credit course within their nursing program for their independent study experience at camp.
  One physics department in Kenya allows its students to take an elective course in entrepreneurship offered by the university's business division.
  All classes used for recruitment were general elective courses that attracted a diverse cross-section of male and female college students.
  A student research program is conducted concurrently with the elective courses - students with something to say are encouraged to say it.
  Temple currently offers a variety of elective classes, focusing on everything from commercial real estate and residential property management to real estate law.
  She expressed disappointment when told that with advance notice our nursing program could have designed learning activities to provide her with an elective course credit for her summer work.
  What if each school and college offered an elective course in pedagogy to prepare students for this education-based practice experience?
  And if psychology is taught in high school, it is offered typically as an elective course.
  All the subjects were recruited by instructors who taught elective courses at each campus.
  A six week elective course on smoking cessation, which aimed to encourage cessation and provide how-to-quit strategies, was also constructed.
  Various chapters may also be interesting to Master's degree students taking specialized elective courses in strategy.
  About 65 percent of schools integrate communication skill development into several required and elective courses throughout the curriculum.
  The students enrolled in this elective course range from advanced placement to general studies.
  On the other hand, students taking the elective course do so by virtue of a preference, and generally ability, for the subject matter.
  Now in college, he is taking a very good course - elective, not required - focused on the roots of Western culture.
  The subject group was comprised of 20 sixth-year medical students who joined the four-week elective course in Oriental psychosomatic medicine.
  Well, I'm lazy and my memories of elective university classes are a bit hazy so I had hoped not to, but here we go.
  Pharmacy ranked last in permitting overseas research for its faculty members and allowing degree-candidate students to take elective study abroad courses.
  The survey was pre-tested by students enrolled in an elective course.

nounəˈlɛktɪvəˈlektiv

North American

An optional course of study.
〈主北美〉选修课程
up to half the credits in many public high schools are electives
Example sentencesExamples
- As I progressed through school, I chose art classes for electives in junior high and high school because that's what I enjoyed.
- For year-round students, the academy offers a full curriculum of requirements and electives, including French.
- The curriculum includes five courses and five electives.
- I'm taking a reading elective this month, interspersed with some Oncology cross-cover.
- We had one elective every day, and had four electives in all, one of them repeating.
- The research course, as well as the guided electives, are taught outside the department with collaborating faculty in teacher education, educational leadership, and social work.
- In a trade-off, though, Tech College offers far fewer electives, or curricular freedom of any sort.
- He chose a philosophy minor, and several courses in classics as electives.
- And while there are three automotive mechanics facilities in the district, none are used heavily and power mechanics, as an elective, has disappeared entirely in Richmond.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French electif, -ive, from late Latin electivus, from elect- ‘picked out’, from the verb eligere (see elect).

词汇	elective
释义	Definition of elective in English: elective adjective ɪˈlɛktɪvəˈlɛktɪv 1Related to or working by means of election. （有关）选举的；靠选举运作的 an elective democracy 推行选举的民主国家。 Example sentencesExamples Looking back on it all many years later in their old age, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his former antagonist John Adams, ‘an elective despotism was not what we fought for’. In this sense, the Scottish system has turned Westminster's elective dictatorship upside down. Instead, we suffer a good deal more from elective dictatorship, with prime ministers and premiers able to shape the political agenda with a freer hand. Buchanan, however, reworked the entire argument in a classical idiom to define an elective form of monarchy and make it axiomatic that kings were accountable to those who elected them. I have never been in local government in an elective sense, but I have always had a great regard for it, for the authenticity that comes from proximity to the people and their very real problems. Other elective procedures are run as they should be. Good thing, then, that elective democracy has a built-in mechanism for removing him. However, as the new elective rules bed in this issue will be kept under review. Perceptive though he was, he never envisaged or understood the prospect of this strange international bureaucracy that is incorrectable by elective mechanism and barely subject to laws. In the 1990s, Lesotho began a new period of elective government. It deals with, among many other things, the conflict between hereditary and elective principles and the constitutional problems of a second chamber. Jumping into elective politics, Hilleary made an unsuccessful run for the state senate in 1992. This trend towards party government has been referred to as elective dictatorship. They also believed that the democratic element of an elective National Assembly should be balanced by a second chamber or senate whose members sat for life. Poland was Europe's most important elective monarchy. It may have a constitutional role, as a check (however fragile) against the elective dictatorship of a temporary majority of MPs in the Commons. But I say to them that elective dictatorship only occurs when we disregard moral and political imperatives. I regard the Senate, along with the High Court, as the two principal features of Australia's governmental structure preventing us from degenerating into an elective dictatorship. The Hopi elective government have fought for defense of their original reservation, while traditionalists support the Navajo families' efforts to remain on the disputed lands. The elective principle itself, Tocqueville notes, forces an ambitious man to appeal beyond the confines of his family and friends for votes. 1.1 (of a person or office) appointed or filled by election. （人，职位）选任的，由选举产生的 he had never held elective office 他从未担任过任何由选举产生的公职。 the National Assembly, with 125 elective members 由125个选举出来的成员组成的国民议会。 Example sentencesExamples George Will notes the steadily increasing ranks of African-American Republicans holding significant elective and appointive office. Under state statute, Daschle would no longer be eligible to hold elective office in South Dakota or represent it in Washington. Swett battled for the full reform program: to make everything, even the mayoralty, an appointive rather than an elective office. A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. When the government introduced an elective element into the Legislative Council in 1842, no bar was placed on the participation of ex-convicts. And that's the decision whether to stand for the nation's highest elective office or not. Sinclair had never held elective office, though he had previously run for governor on the Socialist Party ticket. And yet, its new Republican governor is perhaps the freest-thinking holder of high elective office in the entire nation. Congress is Thune's first elective office, but he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1997 with experience in several jobs that gave him a solid grounding in federal, state and local government. Further, through its political arm, the ATLU began successfully contesting the small number of seats in the legislature that were elective. However Charles saw Exclusion of the rightful heir as changing the monarchy from a hereditary, divinely appointed institution into an elective, limited office that could soon give way to a new commonwealth. Republican women hold forty-one state elective offices, and Democrats, forty-three. Due to this, we don't have an elective member to represent us. The sort of people who run for elective office just don't do that sort of thing. At the same time, both men said they were the person to represent the majority-minority district and that ethnicity is not the only prerequisite for elective office. In addition, while Dole faced criticism that she had no prior elective experience, there was scant attention paid to the dearth of women in executive positions of power in the United States. After Michael's death in a ski accident at year's end, Joe decided to exit elective office altogether. Collins, who had never held elective office, proved to be a better campaigner in 1996 than she had been in 1994. And so, for the first time in 12 years, he found himself out of elective office without a certain next step. Krugman is not a journalist by training, and he's never held appointive or elective office. Synonyms elected, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned 1.2 (of a body or position) possessing or giving the power to elect. （机构，职位）有选举权的；可赋予选举权的 powerful Emperors manipulated the elective body 权力强大的君主操纵了选举机构。 Example sentencesExamples In giving the elective power to the states, the framers of the Constitution hoped to protect state independence. If we cannot elect men with sufficient education and honor even to try to be wise, we can number in a few score the years in which the elective power will remain ours. For it is an elementary proposition that if a vote is not cast for one of the two highest candidates it is completely shorn of its elective power. They cower down and allow him to dictate the pace rather than being an elective body. 2(of surgical or medical treatment) chosen by the patient rather than urgently necessary. （手术或药物治疗）非急需的，可做可不做的 elective surgery Example sentencesExamples Spontaneous abortion refers to pregnancy loss at less than 20 weeks' gestation in the absence of elective medical or surgical measures to terminate the pregnancy. This was why the decision had been made to centralise elective orthopaedics at Waterford Regional Hospital. Nutritional deprivation in patients who have elective gastrointestinal surgical procedures is a normal practice. This is a serious look at America's extreme body modifiers - think tongue splitting, elective amputation and the like. Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section? About 3,500 elective procedures take place in hospitals every week and many cannot proceed without the availability of a blood transfusion. They probably have fewer high-tech machines than we do, and the comparative cost figures may be skewed by the American love of elective procedures. The reduction in hospital stay was present in all subgroups and most pronounced in the patients undergoing elective surgery for aneurysm who received transfusions. Music's soothing effects have been demonstrated in patients undergoing chemotherapy or elective surgery under local or regional anesthesia. Dr Ryan also made it clear that it was not intended that elective surgery would be carried out in Castlebar but that a new specialist unit would be established to cater for elective work for the region at Merlin Park hospital. Synonyms voluntary, non-compulsory, at one's discretion, discretionary, not required, up to the individual, non-mandatory, free, open, unforced 2.1 (of a course of study) chosen by the student rather than compulsory. （课程）选修的 elective courses on this subject have always been oversubscribed Example sentencesExamples All the subjects were recruited by instructors who taught elective courses at each campus. Now in college, he is taking a very good course - elective, not required - focused on the roots of Western culture. And if psychology is taught in high school, it is offered typically as an elective course. About 65 percent of schools integrate communication skill development into several required and elective courses throughout the curriculum. A six week elective course on smoking cessation, which aimed to encourage cessation and provide how-to-quit strategies, was also constructed. Well, I'm lazy and my memories of elective university classes are a bit hazy so I had hoped not to, but here we go. In terms of an agreement with the Ministry of Education, it is recognised as an elective course. The subject group was comprised of 20 sixth-year medical students who joined the four-week elective course in Oriental psychosomatic medicine. What if each school and college offered an elective course in pedagogy to prepare students for this education-based practice experience? She expressed disappointment when told that with advance notice our nursing program could have designed learning activities to provide her with an elective course credit for her summer work. Temple currently offers a variety of elective classes, focusing on everything from commercial real estate and residential property management to real estate law. Pharmacy ranked last in permitting overseas research for its faculty members and allowing degree-candidate students to take elective study abroad courses. The survey was pre-tested by students enrolled in an elective course. All classes used for recruitment were general elective courses that attracted a diverse cross-section of male and female college students. One physics department in Kenya allows its students to take an elective course in entrepreneurship offered by the university's business division. Students may be able to earn an elective credit course within their nursing program for their independent study experience at camp. A student research program is conducted concurrently with the elective courses - students with something to say are encouraged to say it. On the other hand, students taking the elective course do so by virtue of a preference, and generally ability, for the subject matter. The students enrolled in this elective course range from advanced placement to general studies. Various chapters may also be interesting to Master's degree students taking specialized elective courses in strategy. noun ɪˈlɛktɪvəˈlɛktɪv North American An optional course of study. 〈主北美〉选修课程 Example sentencesExamples And while there are three automotive mechanics facilities in the district, none are used heavily and power mechanics, as an elective, has disappeared entirely in Richmond. As I progressed through school, I chose art classes for electives in junior high and high school because that's what I enjoyed. The research course, as well as the guided electives, are taught outside the department with collaborating faculty in teacher education, educational leadership, and social work. I'm taking a reading elective this month, interspersed with some Oncology cross-cover. He chose a philosophy minor, and several courses in classics as electives. We had one elective every day, and had four electives in all, one of them repeating. For year-round students, the academy offers a full curriculum of requirements and electives, including French. The curriculum includes five courses and five electives. In a trade-off, though, Tech College offers far fewer electives, or curricular freedom of any sort. Derivatives electively adverb The patient was taken electively to the operating room where a 7.5 cm x 5 cm x 4 cm hard, nodular tumor mass was resected from the neck and anterior mediastinum. Example sentencesExamples Potentially curative resection was achieved in about 70% of patients presenting electively; the curative resection rate was lower in those presenting as emergencies. I seek leave to table information from the Health Information Service that shows that the number of people treated electively has gone up from 68,000 in 2001 to 114,000 in 2004. Adequate preoperative planning, scheduling surgery electively as opposed to emergency and improving nutritional status may be helpful. Surgeons often electively repair abdominal aortic aneurysms that measure 4 to 5.5 cm in diameter even though the long-term survival benefit of early elective surgery is uncertain. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French electif, -ive, from late Latin electivus, from elect- 'picked out', from the verb eligere (see elect). Definition of elective in US English: elective adjectiveəˈlɛktɪvəˈlektiv 1Related to or working by means of election. （有关）选举的；靠选举运作的 an elective democracy 推行选举的民主国家。 Example sentencesExamples Looking back on it all many years later in their old age, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his former antagonist John Adams, ‘an elective despotism was not what we fought for’. I have never been in local government in an elective sense, but I have always had a great regard for it, for the authenticity that comes from proximity to the people and their very real problems. This trend towards party government has been referred to as elective dictatorship. But I say to them that elective dictatorship only occurs when we disregard moral and political imperatives. Good thing, then, that elective democracy has a built-in mechanism for removing him. Jumping into elective politics, Hilleary made an unsuccessful run for the state senate in 1992. The Hopi elective government have fought for defense of their original reservation, while traditionalists support the Navajo families' efforts to remain on the disputed lands. They also believed that the democratic element of an elective National Assembly should be balanced by a second chamber or senate whose members sat for life. In the 1990s, Lesotho began a new period of elective government. I regard the Senate, along with the High Court, as the two principal features of Australia's governmental structure preventing us from degenerating into an elective dictatorship. The elective principle itself, Tocqueville notes, forces an ambitious man to appeal beyond the confines of his family and friends for votes. Perceptive though he was, he never envisaged or understood the prospect of this strange international bureaucracy that is incorrectable by elective mechanism and barely subject to laws. In this sense, the Scottish system has turned Westminster's elective dictatorship upside down. Poland was Europe's most important elective monarchy. Buchanan, however, reworked the entire argument in a classical idiom to define an elective form of monarchy and make it axiomatic that kings were accountable to those who elected them. However, as the new elective rules bed in this issue will be kept under review. It deals with, among many other things, the conflict between hereditary and elective principles and the constitutional problems of a second chamber. Other elective procedures are run as they should be. It may have a constitutional role, as a check (however fragile) against the elective dictatorship of a temporary majority of MPs in the Commons. Instead, we suffer a good deal more from elective dictatorship, with prime ministers and premiers able to shape the political agenda with a freer hand. 1.1 (of a person or office) appointed or filled by election. （人，职位）选任的，由选举产生的 he had never held elective office 他从未担任过任何由选举产生的公职。 the National Assembly, with 125 elective members 由125个选举出来的成员组成的国民议会。 Example sentencesExamples Further, through its political arm, the ATLU began successfully contesting the small number of seats in the legislature that were elective. Swett battled for the full reform program: to make everything, even the mayoralty, an appointive rather than an elective office. The sort of people who run for elective office just don't do that sort of thing. And that's the decision whether to stand for the nation's highest elective office or not. And so, for the first time in 12 years, he found himself out of elective office without a certain next step. Due to this, we don't have an elective member to represent us. Congress is Thune's first elective office, but he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1997 with experience in several jobs that gave him a solid grounding in federal, state and local government. When the government introduced an elective element into the Legislative Council in 1842, no bar was placed on the participation of ex-convicts. Krugman is not a journalist by training, and he's never held appointive or elective office. Collins, who had never held elective office, proved to be a better campaigner in 1996 than she had been in 1994. George Will notes the steadily increasing ranks of African-American Republicans holding significant elective and appointive office. In addition, while Dole faced criticism that she had no prior elective experience, there was scant attention paid to the dearth of women in executive positions of power in the United States. After Michael's death in a ski accident at year's end, Joe decided to exit elective office altogether. Sinclair had never held elective office, though he had previously run for governor on the Socialist Party ticket. Under state statute, Daschle would no longer be eligible to hold elective office in South Dakota or represent it in Washington. A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. However Charles saw Exclusion of the rightful heir as changing the monarchy from a hereditary, divinely appointed institution into an elective, limited office that could soon give way to a new commonwealth. Republican women hold forty-one state elective offices, and Democrats, forty-three. And yet, its new Republican governor is perhaps the freest-thinking holder of high elective office in the entire nation. At the same time, both men said they were the person to represent the majority-minority district and that ethnicity is not the only prerequisite for elective office. Synonyms elected, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned 1.2 (of a body or position) possessing or giving the power to elect. （机构，职位）有选举权的；可赋予选举权的 Example sentencesExamples If we cannot elect men with sufficient education and honor even to try to be wise, we can number in a few score the years in which the elective power will remain ours. They cower down and allow him to dictate the pace rather than being an elective body. In giving the elective power to the states, the framers of the Constitution hoped to protect state independence. For it is an elementary proposition that if a vote is not cast for one of the two highest candidates it is completely shorn of its elective power. 2(of surgical or medical treatment) chosen by the patient rather than urgently necessary. （手术或药物治疗）非急需的，可做可不做的 Example sentencesExamples Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section? Nutritional deprivation in patients who have elective gastrointestinal surgical procedures is a normal practice. Spontaneous abortion refers to pregnancy loss at less than 20 weeks' gestation in the absence of elective medical or surgical measures to terminate the pregnancy. They probably have fewer high-tech machines than we do, and the comparative cost figures may be skewed by the American love of elective procedures. The reduction in hospital stay was present in all subgroups and most pronounced in the patients undergoing elective surgery for aneurysm who received transfusions. This was why the decision had been made to centralise elective orthopaedics at Waterford Regional Hospital. About 3,500 elective procedures take place in hospitals every week and many cannot proceed without the availability of a blood transfusion. This is a serious look at America's extreme body modifiers - think tongue splitting, elective amputation and the like. Music's soothing effects have been demonstrated in patients undergoing chemotherapy or elective surgery under local or regional anesthesia. Dr Ryan also made it clear that it was not intended that elective surgery would be carried out in Castlebar but that a new specialist unit would be established to cater for elective work for the region at Merlin Park hospital. Synonyms voluntary, non-compulsory, at one's discretion, discretionary, not required, up to the individual, non-mandatory, free, open, unforced 2.1 (of a course of study) chosen by the student rather than compulsory. （课程）选修的 Example sentencesExamples In terms of an agreement with the Ministry of Education, it is recognised as an elective course. Students may be able to earn an elective credit course within their nursing program for their independent study experience at camp. One physics department in Kenya allows its students to take an elective course in entrepreneurship offered by the university's business division. All classes used for recruitment were general elective courses that attracted a diverse cross-section of male and female college students. A student research program is conducted concurrently with the elective courses - students with something to say are encouraged to say it. Temple currently offers a variety of elective classes, focusing on everything from commercial real estate and residential property management to real estate law. She expressed disappointment when told that with advance notice our nursing program could have designed learning activities to provide her with an elective course credit for her summer work. What if each school and college offered an elective course in pedagogy to prepare students for this education-based practice experience? And if psychology is taught in high school, it is offered typically as an elective course. All the subjects were recruited by instructors who taught elective courses at each campus. A six week elective course on smoking cessation, which aimed to encourage cessation and provide how-to-quit strategies, was also constructed. Various chapters may also be interesting to Master's degree students taking specialized elective courses in strategy. About 65 percent of schools integrate communication skill development into several required and elective courses throughout the curriculum. The students enrolled in this elective course range from advanced placement to general studies. On the other hand, students taking the elective course do so by virtue of a preference, and generally ability, for the subject matter. Now in college, he is taking a very good course - elective, not required - focused on the roots of Western culture. The subject group was comprised of 20 sixth-year medical students who joined the four-week elective course in Oriental psychosomatic medicine. Well, I'm lazy and my memories of elective university classes are a bit hazy so I had hoped not to, but here we go. Pharmacy ranked last in permitting overseas research for its faculty members and allowing degree-candidate students to take elective study abroad courses. The survey was pre-tested by students enrolled in an elective course. nounəˈlɛktɪvəˈlektiv North American An optional course of study. 〈主北美〉选修课程 up to half the credits in many public high schools are electives Example sentencesExamples As I progressed through school, I chose art classes for electives in junior high and high school because that's what I enjoyed. For year-round students, the academy offers a full curriculum of requirements and electives, including French. The curriculum includes five courses and five electives. I'm taking a reading elective this month, interspersed with some Oncology cross-cover. We had one elective every day, and had four electives in all, one of them repeating. The research course, as well as the guided electives, are taught outside the department with collaborating faculty in teacher education, educational leadership, and social work. In a trade-off, though, Tech College offers far fewer electives, or curricular freedom of any sort. He chose a philosophy minor, and several courses in classics as electives. And while there are three automotive mechanics facilities in the district, none are used heavily and power mechanics, as an elective, has disappeared entirely in Richmond. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French electif, -ive, from late Latin electivus, from elect- ‘picked out’, from the verb eligere (see elect).
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