See Also: selective(dictionary)
selective(dictionary)
Selective Incapacitation(law)
Selective hedging(finance)
Selective hedging(money)
Selective Distribution(money)
selective stain(medicine)
selective reduction(medicine)
selective memory(medicine)
selective medium(medicine)

selective (oh)



careful about what you choose to do, buy, allow etc
selective about/in
::We're very selective about what we let the children watch.
::selective schools (=that choose which students to accept)
::He has a very selective memory (=he chooses what he wants to remember and what to forget) .
affecting or relating to the best or most suitable people or things from a larger group
::selective breeding
-- selectively adv
-- selectivity /sZ7lek5tIvZti/ n [U]