1. elective - Noun
2. elective - Adjective
3. elective - Adjective Satellite
Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.
In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
Source: Webster's dictionarySimply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror. John Ashcroft
Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. Salman Rushdie
Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you? Herman Cain
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution. James Bovard
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. Thomas Jefferson