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Definition: Decision |
DecisionNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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) | |
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DE | English | Decision element | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DecisionSynonyms: conclusion (n), decisiveness (n), determination (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: indecisiveness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Decision |
| English words defined with "decision": decision making ♦ split decision. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "decision": behavioral decision function, behavioural decision function ♦ decision function, Decision Making, Computer-Assisted, decision problem, decision support, decision support database, Decision Support Systems, Decision Support Techniques, decision theory, Decision Trees ♦ Enforcement Decision Document ♦ multi-valued decision, multiway decision ♦ uniformly better decision function. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "decision": sorcery. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | This 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 | 1817-1825 | Petersburg, submitted to the decision of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | In 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 | 1829-1837 | What 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 | 1961-1963 | Our 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 | 1969-1974 | Now, many believe that President Johnson's decision to send American combat forces to South Vietnam was wrong. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Ten years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union made the historic decision to open the strategic arms limitations talks, or SALT. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Every 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 | 1993-2001 | Instead, I propose that we make an historic decision to invest the surplus to save Social Security. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.93% | 16,610 | 558 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16,621 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 | 裁 (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 | 결 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | di, di-dab-ba, e-bar, gara, ka-a-bar, er. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 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 Latin | 300-700 | placitum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 26 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Multi requirunt faciem principis et a Domino iudicium egreditur singulorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Manye sechen the face of the prince; and dom of eche shal gon out fro the Lord. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Many seek the ruler's favor; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The 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. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Daghang nangita sa kalooy sa magbubuot; Apan ang paghukom sa usa ka tawo nagagikan kang Jehova. |
| Croatian | Mnogi traže milost vladaoèevu, ali Jahve dijeli pravdu svakome. |
| Danish | Mange søger en Fyrstes Gunst; Mands Ret er dog fra HERREN. |
| Dutch | Velen zoeken het aangezicht des heersers; maar een ieders recht is van den HEERE. |
| Finnish | Hallitsijan suosiota etsivät monet, mutta Herralta tulee miehelle oikeus. |
| French | Beaucoup de gens recherchent la faveur de celui qui domine, Mais c`est l`Éternel qui fait droit chacun. |
| German | Viele 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-hari | Banyak orang suka mencari muka pada penguasa, tetapi yang memberi keadilan, hanya TUHAN saja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Banyaklah orang yang menuntut keridlaan raja, tetapi kebenaran orang dari pada Tuhan jua datangnya. |
| Italian | Molti 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. |
| Norwegian | Mange søker en herskers yndest, men fra Herren kommer en manns rett. |
| Portuguese | Muitos buscam o favor do príncipe; mas é do Senhor que o homem recebe a justiça. |
| Rumanian | Mulyi umblq dupq bunqvoinya celui ce stqpknewte, dar Domnul este acela care face dreptate fiecqruia. |
| Spanish | Muchos buscan el favor del gobernante, pero de Jehovah proviene el derecho de cada uno. |
| Swedish | Många söka en furstes ynnest, men av HERREN får var och en sin rätt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "decision" (pronounced dusi"zhun) |
| 7 | d u s i" zh u n | indecision. |
| 6 | -u s i" zh u n | recision, rescission. |
| 5 | -s i" zh u n | circumcision, excision, incision, precision. |
| 4 | -i" zh u n | collision, derision, division, envision, misprision, provision, revision, supervision, vision. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, 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. | ||
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. | |
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