decision

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" [syn: determination, conclusion]

2 the act of making up your mind about something; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly" [syn: determination, conclusion]

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" [syn: decisiveness] [ant: indecisiveness, indecisiveness]

English

Etymology

• from Middle French, in turn from Latin decisio, decisionis, from decidere meaning "to decide".

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Noun

1. A choice or judgement.

   It is the decision of the court that spoiling the endings of movies is protected as free speech.

   It's a tough decision, but I'll take vanilla.

2. Firmness of conviction.

   After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.

3. A result arrived at by the judges (cf. knockout)

   He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.

Usage notes

Sense 2. To decide something is usually to make or take a decision.

Derived terms

• decision tree
• decision procedure
• decision theory

Related terms

• decide
• decisive
• action

Translations

• Afrikaans: beskikking
• Albanian: vendim
• Arabic:
• Azeri: qərar
• Basque: erabakitze
• Bengali: (shidhanto)
• Bulgarian: решение (rešénie)
• Catalan: decisió
• Chinese: 决定 (juédìng)
• Croatian: odlučnost
• Czech: pevnost
• Danish: beslutning
• Dutch: besluit
• Esperanto: decido
• Estonian: otsus
• Finnish: päätös
• French: décision
• Frisian: beslút
• Georgian: გადაწყვეტილება (gadacqvetoleba)
• Greek: απόφαση (apóphasi)
• Hebrew: הַחְלָטָה (hakhlat'a)
• Hindi: (nishchaya karana)
• Hungarian: döntés
• Ido: decido
• Indonesian: keputusan
• Interlingua: decision
• Irish: cinneadh
• Italian: decisione
• Japanese: 決定 (けってい, kettei)
• Korean: 결정 (gyeoljeong)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: decisio
• Latino sine flexione: decisione
• Latvian: lēmums
• Lithuanian: sprendimas
• Macedonian: одлука (odluka)
• Malay: keputusan
• Mongolian: тогтоол шийтгэл (togtool šiytgel)
• Norwegian: avgjørelse
• Old English: dōm
• Papiamentu: desishon
• Persian:
• Polish: decyzja
• Portuguese: decisão
• Romanian: hotărâre
• Serbian: одлучност (odlučnost)
• Slovak: pevnosť
• Slovene: odločitev
• Spanish: decisión
• Swahili: hukumu
• Swedish: avgörande
• Tagalog: kapasiyahan
• Telugu: నిర్ణయం (nirNayam)
• Thai: (gaan dtàt-sĭn jai)
• Turkish: karar
• Ukrainian: вирішення (výrišennja)
• Vietnamese: sự giải quyết
• Welsh: dyfarniad
• Yiddish: באַשלוס (bashlus)

The term decision may refer to:

• Decision, as the outcome of a legal case
• landmark decision is the outcome of a case which sets a legal precedent
• Decision making
• decision trees
• decision support systems
• Decision theory
• Decision (baseball), a statistical credit earned by a baseball pitcher.
• Decisions (professional wrestling), a means by which a wrestler scores a point against his opponent.

• Per curiam decision by a court with multiple judges
• European Union decision

See also

• Decidable

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