Decision

  

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Decision

Definition: Decision

Decision

Noun

1. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration: "a decision unfavorable to the opposition"; "his conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied with the panel's determination".

2. The act of making up your mind about something; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly".

3. (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred: "had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision over his opponent".

4. The outcome of a game or contest: "the team dropped three decisions in a row".

5. The trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose; "a man of unusual decisiveness".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decision" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)


Specialty Definition: Decision

DomainDefinition

International Organizations

Acte juridique, effet externe et publié dans le JOCE. Source: European Union. (references)

Computing

A decision is an action within a transition which asks a question to which the answer can be obtained at that instant and chooses one of several paths to continue the transition. Source: European Union. (references)
 The computer operation of determining if a certain relationship exists between words in a storage or registers, and taking alternative courses of action. This is effected by conditional jumps or equivalent techniques. The process consists of making comparisons, by use of arithmetic, to determine the relationship of two terms. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Decision

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
DEEnglishDecision elementComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Decision

Synonyms: conclusion (n), decisiveness (n), determination (n). (additional references)
Antonym: indecisiveness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Decision

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Choice

Noun: choice, option; discretion; (volition); preoption; alternative; dilemma, embarras de choix; adoption, cooptation; novation; decision; (judgment).

Intention

Decision, determination, resolve; fixed set purpose, settled purpose; ultimatum; resolution; wish; arriere pensee; motive.

Judgment

Decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree; findings of fact; findings of law; res judicata.

Lawsuit

Case; decision, precedent; decided case, reports (legal reference works, see reference books).

Resolution

Noun: determination, will; iron will, unconquerable will; will of one's own, decision, resolution; backbone; clear grit, true grit, grit; sand, strength of mind, strength of will; resolve; (intent); firmness; (stability); energy, manliness, vigor; game, pluck; resoluteness; (courage); zeal; aplomb; desperation; devotion, devotedness.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Decision

English words defined with "decision": decision makingsplit decision. (references)
Specialty definitions using "decision": behavioral decision function, behavioural decision functiondecision function, Decision Making, Computer-Assisted, decision problem, decision support, decision support database, Decision Support Systems, Decision Support Techniques, decision theory, Decision TreesEnforcement Decision Documentmulti-valued decision, multiway decisionuniformly better decision function. (references)
Etymologies containing "decision": sorcery. (references)

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Modern Usage: Decision

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've made a decision, I'm gonna live in Morocco for one year (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

I was talking to your Mama. It's her decision, not yours (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

The decision rests with you. (The Day the Earth Stood Still; writing credit: Harry Bates; Edmund H. North)

I told Miss Miyama about your trip and she immediately decided to come here too. So I based my decision on love, and I have a feeling that Miyama really likes you, Takakura (Mahô tsukai tai!; writing credit: Akinori Endo)

Ma, you were the one who told me that I could control my life, and I made a decision. I want to have a baby (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

Lyrics

So long ago I made a decision to be footloose and fancy free (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

That's your decision (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel)

I'm weighing my decision (Don't rush me; performing artist: Taylor Dayne)

We gotta make a decision (Fast Car; performing artist: Tracy Chapman)

You gotta make a decision (Fast Car; performing artist: Tracy Chapman)

Clever

100 Senators: Not 1 decision. (references; author: unknown)

Careful Thinker: Won't make a decision. (references; author: unknown)

A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything! (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Decision to Burn (1971)

A Time for Decision (1966)

Decision at Midnight (1963)

Moment of Decision (1962)

Decision (1958)

Song Titles

Faded (performing artist: Soul Decision)

Ooh! It's Kinda Crazy (performing artist: Soul Decision)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Decision

DomainTitle

Books

  • Teen-Proofing: Fostering Responsible Decision Making In Your Teenager (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Executive Decision (reference)

  • Unsolved Mysteries of World War II - Decision at Dunkirk/Stalin's Secret Armies (reference)

  • The Valley of Decision (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Decision

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Decision

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Pictured are rows of artificially sweetened sodas on a grocery shelf with a "saccharin warning label" in front of them. The legal banning of artificially sweetened products was prevented by consumer pressure. FDA warning labels are on such products and the consumer must make a personal decision about using these products containing saccharin. In 1997 the FDA was considering taking saccharin off the list of possible carcinogens. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pelicans on river at Decision Point. Credit: Unknown.

Before a decision on treatment is made, the patient is examined thoroughly. / WHO/Novosti photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"The Judge's decision is --". Credit: Library of Congress.

I made my decision. You! Get into the plane! Right now!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Mildred Gold reads literary quotes to her elementary students from, the book "The school day begins," which replaced the Bible in Pittsburgh classroom after the Supreme Court decision on religion in schools. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Army develops all a man has of courage - it makes a strong body and trains the mind to disciplined decision Enlist!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Con la misma combatividad, con la misma decision, con la misma disciplina de los heroes del Moncada : XVI aniversario. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Decision

AuthorQuotation

Charles Caleb Colton

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

George Bancroft

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Maimonides

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Peter F. Drucker

Decision making is the specific executive task.
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision at all, it is an intention.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Robert J. Mccracken

We can sometimes be fully conscious of the folly of a decision and yet at the very moment be knowingly proceeding to carry it out...

Sun Tzu

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Decision

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

All fines made with us unjustly and against the law of the land, and all amercements, imposed unjustly and against the law of the land, shall be entirely remitted, or else it shall be done concerning them according to the decision of the five and twenty barons whom mention is made below in the clause for securing the pease, or according to the judgment of the majority of the same, along with the aforesaid Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and such others as he may wish to bring with him for this purpose, and if he cannot be present the business shall nevertheless proceed without him, provided always that if any one or more of the aforesaid five and twenty barons are in a similar suit, they shall be removed as far as concerns this particular judgment, others being substituted in their places after having been selected by the rest of the same five and twenty for this purpose only, and after having been sworn. (reference)

John Locke

1690

In both the fore-mentioned cases, when either the legislative is changed, or the legislators act contrary to the end for which they were constituted; those who are guilty are guilty of rebellion: for if any one by force takes away the established legislative of any society, and the laws by them made, pursuant to their trust, he thereby takes away the umpirage, which every one had consented to, for a peaceable decision of all their controversies, and a bar to the state of war amongst them. (Second Treatise of Government)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The decision of the local courts in any dispute as to the nature of such property shall be final. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

It is necessary that constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, and the grand simplicity of decision shall guide and rule the conduct of the English-speaking peoples in peace as they did in war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Our decision, therefore, cannot turn on merely a comparison of these tangible factors in the Negro and white schools involved in each of the cases. (reference)

Roe v. Wade

1973

For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Decision

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Sylvie whispered the words, several times over, with a thoughtful smile, and then made her decision.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

She had therefore reserved her decision thereupon

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Now she took her decision.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Decision

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Remember any decision is not final. (references)

Any decision about HRT or ERT that you make now is not final. (references)

Decision making about home monitoring is a collaborative enterprise. (references)

Business

Occasionally payment terms also influence the decision. (references)

The primary factor in the end users’ buying decision is price. (references)

Price, delivery, and service are always critical in decision making. (references)

Children

Australia

The High Court ruled that the decision to undertake sterilization procedures should be made by an independent body. (references)

Suriname

Both students and parents complained about the Government's decision to double enrollment fees for public school, which occurred both in 1999 and 2000. Fees during the year remained at the 2000 level. (references)

Malaysia

In August 1999, former Minister of National Unity and Social Development Zaleha said that only 10 percent of residential and commercial buildings were "disabled-friendly." In September 1999, Zaleha announced a cabinet decision to require that 10 percent of houses in all new housing projects be accessible to persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Panama

Bernal appealed this decision. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

There was no court challenge to the police decision. (references)

Turkey

His appeal of the decision was pending at year's end. (references)

Economic History

France

A final decision could be made in July. (references)

Colombia

Reports on the effectiveness of this decision are mixed. (references)

Egypt

This happens repeatedly, at every level of decision making. (references)

Human Rights

India

No court may overturn such a decision. (references)

Uruguay

The plaintiffs appealed the trial-level court's decision. (references)

Georgia

The Procuracy's decision cannot be appealed to the courts. (references)

Indigenous People

Malaysia

The state government of Sarawak appealed the decision. (references)

Peru

Many factors impede their ability to participate in, and facilitate their deliberate exclusion from, decision making directly affecting their lands, culture, traditions, and the allocation of natural resources. (references)

Minorities

Romania

Local authorities have not supported the enforcement of the Government's decision. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

General Assembly again deferred a decision on Afghanistan's credentials. (references)

VENEZUELA

Andean Community Decision 345 covers patent protection for plant varieties. (references)

Guinea-Bissau

The National Assembly criticized the dismissals and supported the Court's decision. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

Akhtaruzzaman challenged the decision, and his seat remained vacant until Parliament dissolved in July. (references)

Mexico

The PAN appealed the state level decision to the TEPJF, the ultimate court of appeal on election matters. (references)

Somalia

Yusuf refused to accept the decision, and in December he militarily seized Garowe, reportedly with Ethiopian support. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Offset proposals play an important role in the decision to award large defense contracts. (references)

Egypt

A Technical Secretariat shall be established with GOEIC by a decision of its Board Chairman. (references)

China

The reform of the banking system has been accompanied by PBOC's decision to decontrol interest rates. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

Consensual decision making is very deeply ingrained in Vietnamese social and political behavior. (references)

Poland

If the decision is positive, the office will mail a "Promesa" (an assurance of permit issuance) to the employer. (references)

Japan

Group decision making is emphasized in Japan and has been generally described as a bottom up exercise rather than top down. (references)

Women

Nicaragua

Narvaez appealed the decision, and the case was pending in the courts at year's end. (references)

Senegal

In April 2000, inhabitants of 26 villages on the Sine Saloum Islands publicly announced their decision to ban the practice of FGM in their communities. (references)

Venezuela

This is a result of the Government's June 2000 decision to allow women to attend military academies and serve in expanded roles as officers in the armed forces. (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

The court had issued no decision by year's end. (references)

El Salvador

Union members must approve a decision to strike through secret ballot. (references)

Brazil

Failure to end a strike after a labor court decision is punishable by law. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Decision

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Ann Richards

Oh, man. You know, there are so many decision makers in this question, you would not believe it up here. And everybody has an opinion. And I suspect what will finally shake out of this will be probably a combination of all of it.

Dan Rather

Time to move on. I think so. That decision hasn't been made. There's a lot of possibilities. Don't have to have a host. Could go a repertory company.

House Minority Whip David Bonior

Well, I think we needed to resolve this before we got here this week, obviously, and this was in the making for a number of weeks prior to the decision that was made here. I'm glad that it's in the past, I'm glad it's behind us.

Mark Shields

Not ready to decide, Bob. And in my experience in politics, the decision not to decide is usually a decision not to run. He didn't sound like a guy who was eager to take on either Tom DeLay or Roy Blunt at this point.

Paula Poundstone

Right. The children are wards of the court and you're taking care of them until the court makes a decision about what happens with them.

Richard Armey

In this Congress probably this summer, I would hope by July. It's been very difficult to deal with the language of the Supreme Court decision.

Rush Limbaugh

While channel surfing after the big Supreme Court decision, I noticed that the media was focusing almost exclusively on the dissent of the court.

Tom Daschle

I'm not going to come to that conclusion yet. I'm going to make our best effort to make my judgment, once that effort has been made. So that decision is a little ways off.

Yitzhak Rabin

I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy. I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time. I appreciate the Chairman Arafat for his courage to take the decision to enter into negotiations with us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Decision

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801This decision, it is understood, will preclude all contention among the individual claimants, as it seems that the Scoodiac and its northern branch bound the grants of land which have been made by the respective adjoining Governments.

James Monroe

1817-1825Petersburg, submitted to the decision of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829In the event of a disagreement between the commissioners it was provided that they should make reports to their several Governments, and that the reports should finally be referred to the decision of a sovereign the common friend of both.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837What ever that decision may be, it will be faithfully enforced by the Executive as far as he is authorized so to do.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Now, many believe that President Johnson's decision to send American combat forces to South Vietnam was wrong.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Ten years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union made the historic decision to open the strategic arms limitations talks, or SALT.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Instead, I propose that we make an historic decision to invest the surplus to save Social Security.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Decision

"Decision" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Decision" is used about 16,621 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.93%16,610558
Noun (proper)0.04%6143,867
Noun (common)0.03%5157,705
                    Total100.00%16,621N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Decision

Expressions using "decision": agreed decision appeal against a decision arrive at a decision Bakke decision behavioral decision function behavioural decision function cabinet decision come to a decision conscious decision to work with biologial agents contested decision court decision decision altitude decision and manoeuvering region decision height decision maker decision making decision of character decision problem decision speed decision support decision support database Decision Support System decision Support Systems Decision Support Techniques decision table decision theory Decision Trees edit decision list final decision go behind a decision hasty decision judge's decision judicial decision just decision lightning decision majority decision make a decision make decision point decision policy decision political decision preliminary decision probability decision support system reach a decision reasoned decision recent decision reinforce smb.'s decision right of decision sensible decision snap decision social security claim decision message split decision take a decision take decision uniformly better decision function unjust decision wise decision worry smb. into a decision. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "decision": decision-by-default, decision-maker, decision-makers, decision-making, decision-making power, decision-oriented, decision-problem, decision-problems, decision-process, decision-rule, decision-support, decision-taker, decision-takers, decision-takin, decision-taking.

Ending with "decision": co-decision, non-decision.

Containing "decision": non-decision-making.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Decision

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

decision making

961

decision making model

45

supreme court decision

446

united state supreme court decision

39

decision support system

295

decision making technique

38

crystal decision

260

action affirmative decision

38

decision icc services

200

group decision making

37

soul decision

162

court decision supreme u.s

37

decision

151

decision theory

35

decision tree

114

decision science

31

decision one

113

court decision

31

decision support

97

credit card instant decision

31

decision mortgage one

96

recent supreme court decision

30

decision superiority

91

executive decision

28

dred scott decision

83

arboles de decision

27

decision making process

78

decision support software

26

us supreme court decision

66

decision matrix

26

action affirmative court decision supreme

61

decision data

24

critical thinking and decision making

61

career decision

24

decision eternal

56

split decision

24

ethical decision making

51

decision ethics making

23

bankofamerica.com card credit decision

48

decision making skill

23
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Decision

Language Translations for "decision"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

beskikking (accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, disposition). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

vendosmëri (dash, dead set, decisiveness, determination, firmness, flatness, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, steadiness), vendim (award, decree, decretal, deliverance, determination, judgement, judgment, resolution, resolve, ruling, sentence, verdict). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏قضاء (elimination, judgment, judicature, judiciary), ‏قرار (award, burden, chorus, decree, deliverance, doom, judgement, refrain, resolution, resolve, ruling, sentence), ‏حكم (administer, administration, arbiter, arbitration, ascendancy, authority, award, control, decide, deliverance, determination, dispensation, doom, fasten, fastening, find, finding, govern, hand down, judge, judgement, judgment, opinion, reckon, referee, regimen, rule, ruling, run, sway, umpire, verdict), ‏حسم (clench, clinch, decide, deduct, deduction, determination, determine, discount, discounting, dispose, rebate, recoup, refund, settlement, sew up, shave), ‏تقرير (account, advisory, confirmation, determination, record, report, statement), ‏القرار. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

решение (adjudication, answer, award, conclusion, determination, judgement, judgment, pronouncement, resolution, resolve, say so, sentence, settlement, solution, verdict, working out), решителност (chopping, crispness, determination, finality, firmness, flatness, pluck, resolution, resolve), непоколебимост (immovability, resolution, will), заключение (conclusion, finale, illation, inference, peroration, upshot), присъда (adjudication, assize, award, judgement, judgment, pronouncement, sentence, verdict). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(cut, cut out, diminish, judgment, reduce, trim), 决定 (Decide, Decided, Deciding, Determinative), 主意 (idea, plan). (various references)

   

Czech

  

verdikt (verdict), rozsudek (adjudication, conviction, finding, judgement, judgment, sentence, verdict), rozhodnutí (adjudgement, adjudgment, adjudication, award, call, determination, judgement, resolve, verdict), rozhodnost (absoluteness, decisiveness, determination, flatness, resolution). (various references)

   

Danish

  

beslutning (disposition). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

besluit (conclusion, decree, end, ending), beslissing, uitspraak (adjudication, declaration, proclamation, pronunciation, statement, verdict). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

decido, decideco (firmness, peremptoriness, resolution), juĝa decido (judgement). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

حکم دادگاه , تصمیم (Avow, Canon, Pluck, Resolution), عزم (Avow, Impetus, Purpose, Resolution), داوری (Umpirage, Umpire). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

päätös (award, conclusion, judgment, sentence, verdict). (various references)

   

French

  

décision (decree, deliverance). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

beslút. (various references)

   

German

  

Entscheidung (adjudication, arbitration, call, judgment, pronouncement, recent decision, ruling, settlement, verdict), Urteil (award, decree, estimation, judgement, judgment, opinion, sentence, verdict), beschluss (determination, resolution, solutions), Beschluß (conclusion, determination, solutions). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απόφαση (determination, resolution, ruling, sentence). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"חלט" (determination, resolution). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elhatározás (determination, mind, resolution, resolve), döntés (adjudication, arbitrament, award, conclusion, determination, dispensation, judgement, judgment, resolution, resolve, ruling, say-so, verdict). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ketetapan (consistency, constancy), keputusan (judgment). (various references)

   

Italian

  

decisione (adjudication, flatness, judgement, judgment, mind, resolution, resolve, ruling), deliberazione (deliberation, determination, judgement, resolution), risoluzione (determination, resolution, solution, sum), decreto (act, appointment, decree, judgement, ordinance). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

了見 (discretion, forgiveness, idea, inclination, intention, motive, thought, toleration). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かくてい (definition, demarcation, settlement, train stopping almost every station), "あ" (conclusion), とりきめ (agreement), は" " (adjudication, conclusion, decipherment, divination, judgement), は"てい (anti-imperialism, award, judgement, residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo, verdict), けっちゃく (conclusion, end, settlement), けってい (determination), けつ (arse, ass, buttocks, deficiency, excellence, lack, mosquito larva, that, vacancy, vote), けつ " (determination, forming into an organization, setting up a group), けつい (determination), "てい (conclusion), りょうけ" (design, discretion, forgiveness, gun dog, hound, hunting dog, idea, inclination, intention, motive, thought, toleration), ぎけつ (resolution, vote), せいてい (arbitration, award, creation, enactment, establishment, narrow place, ruling, well bottom), さ め (agreement, appointment, arrangement, destiny, fate, karma, law, provision, regulation, rule), さいてい (arbitration, award, disgusting, horrible, least, lowest, nasty, ruling, second time, worst, yuck!), さいけつ (collecting blood, drawing blood, judgement, roll call, ruling, vote), さばき (break, deal with, dispose of, drain, flow off, handle, judgment, sell, tear, tribunal, verdict), さくてい (settling on), ひょうけつ (ballot, congelation, freeze, freezing, verdict, vote, voting), しょけつ (settlement), デシジョン , けつぎ (resolution, vote). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Conclusive, Crucial, Crystal, Crystallizing, Deciding, Definitive, Determinant, Determining, irrevocable). (various references)

   

Malay

  

keputusan. (various references)

   

Manx

  

briwnys (appreciation, arbitration, award, conclusion, doom, estimate, judgement, jurisdiction, ruling, verdict). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

avgjørelse. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

desishon. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecisionday.(various references)

   

Polish

  

decyzja. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

decisão (definition, determination, finding, purpose, rede, resolution, resolve, settlement, settling, will). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

decizie (determination, order, resolution, verdict), tãrie moralã (fortitude), sentinţã (adjudgement, adjudgment, adjudication, aphorism, award, determination, doom, judgement, sentence, verdict), judecatã (award, bar, inquest, judgement, law, reason, Rede, sentence, trial, understanding, verdict, view, wisdom), hotãrâre (act, adjudgement, adjudgment, adjudication, award, conclusion, decree, determination, dispensation, firmness, flatness, judgement, order, ordinance, peremptoriness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, result, rule, sentence, stoutness, verdict, will, writ), fermitate (backbone, consistence, consistency, determination, firmness, fixedness, fixity, inflexibility, resoluteness, resolution, solidity, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, sturdiness), concluzie (conclusion, deduction, determination, end, finding, inference, laconism, opinion, upshot). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

решение (answer, arbitrament, decree, judgement, judgment, resolution, resolve, solution). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

breitheanas (judgement), breith (bearing, begetting, birth, catching, judgment, opinion). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

rešenost (resolve), rešenje (rescript, solution), odluka (decree, determination, finding, ordination, resolution). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

decisión (purposefulness, rule, ruling, spine), sentencia (adjudication, award, dictum, judgement, judgment, order, sentence, statement, verdict). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

beslut (act, determination, order, resolution, resolve). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sonuç (aftermath, close, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, joy, outcome, payoff, produce, product, result, resultant, sequel, show, success, sum, upshot), kararlılık (ballast, decisiveness, determination, doggedness, equipoise, fixity, flatness, immovability, inflexibility, insistence, resoluteness, resolution, singleness, singleness of purpose, stability, stableness, steadiness, stoutness, strenght of purpose), karar (adjudication, award, conclusion, decider, decree, determination, doom, fiat, finding, holding, judgement, resolution, resolve, sentence, verdict, vote), hüküm (adjudication, assize, authority, award, conclusion, deliverance, dicta, dictum, doom, estimate, fiat, judgement, operation, predication, provision, proviso, rule, ruling, sentence, statute, verdict). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

karar (conclusion, patience), зцzgьt (resolution). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рішучість (dash, determination, firmness, fixedness, flatness, purpose, resoluteness, spirit, vigor, vigour), рішення (act, counsel, decree), твердість (assurance, assuredness, firmness, hardness, resoluteness, resolution, solidity), вирок (advice, arrest, deliverance, judgement, judgment), визначення (appreciation, decretal, definition, designation, determination, ordainment). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính quả quyết (decisiveness), sự phân xử (arbitrament, arbitration), quyết nghị tính kiên quyết. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dyfarniad (award, verdict). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Decision

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

di, di-dab-ba, e-bar, gara, ka-a-bar, er. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

adprobationem, arbitrio, arbitrium, consilia, consilii, consiliis, consilio, consiliorum, consilium, consiliumque, constitutio, constitutione, constitutionem, constitutiones, decreta, decreti, decretis, decreto, decretum, dogma, dogmata, iudicium, judicium, sententia. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

placitum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Decision

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 29, Verse 26
Latin405VulgateMulti requirunt faciem principis et a Domino iudicium egreditur singulorum
Middle English1395WyclifManye sechen the face of the prince; and dom of eche shal gon out fro the Lord.
Jacobean English1611King JamesMany seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
Victorian English1833WebsterMany seek the ruler's favor; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
Basic English1964OgdenThe approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Decision

LanguageProverbs Chapter 29, Verse 26
Cebuano¶ Daghang nangita sa kalooy sa magbubuot; Apan ang paghukom sa usa ka tawo nagagikan kang Jehova.
CroatianMnogi traže milost vladaoèevu, ali Jahve dijeli pravdu svakome.
DanishMange søger en Fyrstes Gunst; Mands Ret er dog fra HERREN.
DutchVelen zoeken het aangezicht des heersers; maar een ieders recht is van den HEERE.
FinnishHallitsijan suosiota etsivät monet, mutta Herralta tulee miehelle oikeus.
FrenchBeaucoup de gens recherchent la faveur de celui qui domine, Mais c`est l`Éternel qui fait droit chacun.
GermanViele suchen das Angesicht eines Fürsten; aber eines jeglichen Gericht kommt vom HERRN.
Haitian Creole¶ Anpil moun ap kouri dèyè favè chèf. Men, se Bondye k'ap jije tout moun san patipri.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariBanyak orang suka mencari muka pada penguasa, tetapi yang memberi keadilan, hanya TUHAN saja.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBanyaklah orang yang menuntut keridlaan raja, tetapi kebenaran orang dari pada Tuhan jua datangnya.
ItalianMolti ricercano il favore del principe, ma è il Signore che giudica ognuno.
Maori¶ He tokomaha e whai ana kia paingia e te rangatira: otiia i ahu mai i a Ihowa te whakawa mo te tangata.
NorwegianMange søker en herskers yndest, men fra Herren kommer en manns rett.
PortugueseMuitos buscam o favor do príncipe; mas é do Senhor que o homem recebe a justiça.   
RumanianMulyi umblq dupq bunqvoinya celui ce stqpknewte, dar Domnul este acela care face dreptate fiecqruia.
SpanishMuchos buscan el favor del gobernante, pero de Jehovah proviene el derecho de cada uno.
SwedishMånga söka en furstes ynnest, men av HERREN får var och en sin rätt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Decision

Derivations

Words beginning with "decision": decisional, decisioned, decisioning, decisions. (additional references)

Words ending with "decision": indecision, nondecision, subdecision. (additional references)

Words containing "decision": indecisions, nondecisions, subdecisions. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Decision" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decesion, decidion, decipium, decisi, decisio, decison, decission, decition, decsion, decurion, descision, desicion, desision, devision, dicision, disision. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Decision"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "decision" (pronounced dusi"zhun)
7d u s i" zh u nindecision.
6-u s i" zh u nrecision, rescission.
5-s i" zh u ncircumcision, excision, incision, precision.
4-i" zh u ncollision, derision, division, envision, misprision, provision, revision, supervision, vision.
3-zh u nabrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, cohesion, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, delusion, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, equation, erosion, evasion, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, inclusion, incursion, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, lesion, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, preclusion, profusion, reversion, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, television, transfusion, version.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Decision

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-o-s"

-1 letter: codeins, eosinic, incised, indices, iodines, ionised, secondi.

-2 letters: codein, codens, coined, conies, cosied, cosine, donsie, icones, incise, indies, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, ionics, ionise, noised, onside, oscine, second.

-3 letters: cedis, cines, cions, coden, codes, coeds, coins, coned, cones, cosie, decos, dices, dines, disci, disco, eidos, eosin, icons, indie, iodic, iodin, ionic, nides, nisei.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: coincides, decisions, echinoids, miscoined.

 

+2 letters: celloidins, clonidines, decillions, decisional, decisioned, depictions, directions, discretion, dissection, eicosanoid, hedonistic, indecision, lidocaines, midsection.

 

+3 letters: codesigning, considering, decimations, decisioning, dedications, description, desiccation, diachronies, discontinue, discovering, discretions, dissections, dominickers, eicosanoids, indecisions, jocundities, leucocidins, medications, midsections, millisecond, modernistic, nondecision, predictions, seminomadic, siliconized, subdecision, suspicioned, tyrocidines, unsolicited.

 

+4 letters: benedictions, biomedicines, codirections, coincidences, commissioned, conditioners, declinations, decommission, deconditions, deifications, derelictions, descriptions, desiccations, dictionaries, disaffection, disconfirmed, discontinued, discontinues, diseconomies, disinfection, disobedience, doctrinaires, dominatrices, edifications, educationist, elucidations, enchiridions, endocarditis, eradications, indirections, indiscretion, indocilities, interdictors, maledictions, milliseconds, miscaptioned, misconceived, misdirection, miseducation, misrecording, nondecisions, nondiabetics, periodontics, predications, reconditions, redirections, reductionism, reductionist, rodenticides, romanticised, sexdecillion, subdecisions, undecillions, unsocialized, valedictions.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Abbreviations
21. Acronyms
22. Derivations
23. Rhymes
24. Anagrams
25. Bibliography


  

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