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• s  having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment
  The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds
• s  (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed
  discretionary funds
  discretionary income

• Yet even as sales have slowed in recent months as consumers cut back on discretionary spending, theft of the devices has continued to soar.
• A stock sector known as "consumer discretionary," which includes everything from automakers to fast-food retailers, is enjoying a more bullish earnings outlook too, thanks .
• The games are also inexpensive enough so that they should be a reasonable proxy for consumer discretionary spending.

• discretional

News & Articles

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• News Summary: Stocks sink as traders watch the Fed
  News Summary: Stocks sink as traders watch the Fed Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 2:22 pm, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Consumer discretionary stocks, a broad category that includes department stores, restaurants and media companies, fell the most of the 10 industry groups ...
  June 15, 2013 - seattlepi.com
• News Summary: Consumer discretionary stocks lead a decline on Wall Street
  CONSUMER SLUMP: Consumer discretionary stocks, a broad category that includes department stores, restaurants and media companies, fell the most of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index, 1.1 percent.
  June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Discretion Advised: Consumer Discretionary Soars
  Is it time for Consumer Discretionary investors to exercise some discretion?
  June 11, 2013 - CNBC

Quotes

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• Jonathan Schwartz in KTAR.com
  Smaller companies that could make discretionary decisions about (information technology) spending made discretionary decisions _ they definitely tapped the brakes,Schwartz said.
• President Bush in FOXNews
  Such cost increases would force deep cuts in discretionary spending or federal employment to stay within budget,Bush said in a letter to congressional leaders. "Either outcome would unacceptably interfere with our nation's ability to...
• Arne Duncan in Columbus Dispatch
  Last week, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned that states restricting charters schools "put themselves at a competitive disadvantage for the largest pool of discretionary dollars states have ever had access to."