decision
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English
Etymology
From Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, dēcīsiōnis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
decision (countable and uncountable, plural decisions)
- The act of deciding.
- A choice or judgement.
- It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech.
- It's a tough decision, but I'll take vanilla.
- 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
- The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
- (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
- After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.
- (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
- He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.
- (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
Usage notes
- (choice or judgment): Most often, to decide something is to make a decision; however, other possibilities exist as well. Many verbs used with destination or conclusion, such as reach, come to, and arrive at can also be used with decision; these serve to emphasize that the decision is the result of deliberation. Finally, some varieties of English prefer to take a decision rather than make one.
- See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of decision collocated with these words.
Derived terms
- co-decision
- decisional
- decision fatigue
- decision height
- decisioning
- decision maker
- decision making
- decision-making
- decision market
- decision problem
- decision procedure
- decision room
- decision science
- decision stream
- decision theology
- decision theory
- decision tree
- executive decision
- framed decision
- game-time decision
- indecision
- majority decision
- make a decision
- no decision
- rule of decision
- split decision
- take a decision
Related terms
Collocations
Collocations
- Adjectives often applied to "decision": bad, big, careful, challenging, clever, collective, complex, delayed, deliberate, difficult, easy, foolish, forced, good, hard, hasty, important, informed, major, personal, poor, prudent, quick, rash, responsible, serious, significant, slow, small, smart, strategic, stupid, thoughtful, tough, uninformed, wise.
Translations
choice or judgement
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firmness of conviction
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result arrived at by the judges
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Verb
decision (third-person singular simple present decisions, present participle decisioning, simple past and past participle decisioned)
Further reading
Anagrams
Lombard
Pronunciation
Noun
decision f
See also
- decision at Lombard Wiktionary
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin, see above.
Noun
decision f (plural decisions)
Occitan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
decision f (plural decisions)