decision

Derived from Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, dēcīsiōnis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪʒən/, [dɪˈsɪʒn̩]

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• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

decision (countable and uncountable, plural decisions)

1. The act of deciding.
2. 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.

   I told him about my decision to leave forever.

   • 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.

3. (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.

   After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.

4. (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.

5. (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.

• (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.

• decide
• decisive

decision (third-person singular simple present decisions, present participle decisioning, simple past and past participle decisioned)

1. (boxing) To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout

• decision on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• coin dies, iconised

• IPA^(key): /det͡ʃiˈsjũː/

decision f

1. decision

• decision at Lombard Wiktionary

Derived from Latin, see above.

decision f (plural decisions)

1. decision

Derived from Latin dēcīsiō.

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decision f (plural decisions)

1. decision

• decidir