decision

See also: décision and decisión

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪʒən/, [dɪˈsɪʒn̩]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Noun

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.

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
• counterdecision
• decisional
• decision fatigue
• decision height
• decisioning
• decisionism
• decisionist
• decisionless
• decision maker
• decisionmaker
• 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
• microdecision
• misdecision
• no decision
• nondecision
• predecision
• redecision
• rule of decision
• semidecision
• split decision
• subdecision
• take a decision

Related terms

• decide
• decisive

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

• Afrikaans: besluit (af)
• Akan: gyinaesi
• Arabic: قَرَار (ar) m (qarār), تَصْمِيم m (taṣmīm), حُكْم (ar) m (ḥukm)

  Egyptian Arabic: حكم m (ḥukm)

  Hijazi Arabic: قرار m (garār, qarār)

  South Levantine Arabic: قرار m (qarār)

• Armenian: որոշում (hy) (orošum)
• Azerbaijani: qərar (az)
• Bashkir: ҡарар (qarar)
• Basque: erabaki
• Belarusian: рашэ́нне n (rašénnje), рашэ́ньне n (rašénʹnje)
• Bulgarian: реше́ние (bg) n (rešénie)
• Catalan: decisió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 決定 / 决定 (kyut³ ding⁶)

  Mandarin: 決定 / 决定 (zh) (juédìng)

• Czech: rozhodnutí (cs) n
• Danish: beslutning c
• Dutch: beslissing (nl) f, besluit (nl) n
• Esperanto: decido
• Estonian: otsus
• Finnish: päätös (fi)
• French: décision (fr) f, arrêt (fr) m
• Galician: decisión (gl)
• Georgian: გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba)
• German: Entscheidung (de) f, Beschluss (de) m, Beschluß (de) m (obsolete spelling), Beschlusz m (obsolete spelling)
• Greek: απόφαση (el) f (apófasi)
• Hebrew: הַחְלָטָה (he) f (hakhlatá)
• Hindi: निर्णय (hi) m (nirṇay), फ़ैसला m (faislā)
• Hungarian: döntés (hu)
• Icelandic: ákvörðun (is) f
• Indonesian: keputusan (id)
• Irish: cinneadh (ga) m
• Italian: decisione (it) f
• Japanese: 決定 (ja) (けってい, kettei), 決断 (ja) (けつだん, ketsudan)
• Kazakh: шешім (kk) (şeşım)
• Khmer: សម្រេច (km) (sɑmrac), សាលក្រម (km) (saal krɑm), ការសម្រេចចិត្ត (kaa sɑmrac cət)
• Korean: 결정(決定) (ko) (gyeoljeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بڕیار (ckb) (birryar)

  Northern Kurdish: biryar (ku) f, qerar (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: чечим (ky) (cecim)
• Lao: ການຕັດສິນໃຈ (kān tat sin chai)
• Latin: consultum n, dēcrētum n
• Latvian: lēmums m, apņemšanās
• Lezgi: къарар (q̄arar)
• Lithuanian: sprendimas (lt) m, nutarimas m
• Macedonian: одлука f (odluka)
• Malay: keputusan (ms)
• Maltese: deċiżjoni f
• Maori: tatūnga
• Marathi: निर्णय m (nirṇay)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: вашмут (vašmut)

• Middle French: decision f
• Mizo: thutlûkna
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шийдвэр (mn) (šiidver)

• Ngazidja Comorian: âzma class 9/10
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beslutning (no) m or f

• Occitan: decision (oc) f
• Oromo: murtii
• Ottoman Turkish: اختیار (ihtiyâr) (choice)
• Papiamentu: desishon
• Pashto: قرار (ps) m (qarār), تصميم (ps) m (tasmim)
• Persian:

  Dari: تَصْمِیم (tasmīm), قَرَار (qarār)

  Iranian Persian: تَصْمیم (tasmim), قَرار (ğarâr)

• Polish: decyzja (pl) f
• Portuguese: decisão (pt) f
• Romanian: decizie (ro) f, hotărâre (ro) f
• Russian: реше́ние (ru) n (rešénije), урегули́рование (ru) n (uregulírovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одлука f, решење n

  Roman: odluka (sh) f, rešenje (sh) n, rješenje (sh) n

• Slovak: rozhodnutie n
• Slovene: odločitev (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rozsud m

• Spanish: decisión (es) f
• Swedish: beslut (sv) n
• Tabasaran: къарар (q̄arar)
• Tagalog: pagpasiya
• Tajik: тасмим (tg) (tasmim), қарор (tg) (qaror)
• Tatar: карар (tt) (qarar)
• Thai: การตัดสิน (th) (gaan-dtàt-sǐn), การตัดสินใจ (th) (gaan-dtàt-sǐn-jai)
• Turkish: karar (tr)
• Turkmen: karar
• Ukrainian: рі́шення (uk) n (ríšennja), ви́рішення n (výrišennja)
• Urdu: فَیصْلَہ m (faisla), تَصْمِیم f (tasmīm), قَرار m (qarār)
• Uyghur: قارار (qarar)
• Uzbek: qaror (uz)
• Vietnamese: quyết định (vi) (決定)
• Zazaki: qerar m, hıkum m

firmness of conviction

• Afrikaans: besluit (af)
• Basque: erabaki
• Bulgarian: реши́телност (bg) f (rešítelnost)
• Czech: rozhodnost f
• Danish: beslutsomhed c
• Dutch: beslissing (nl) f, besluit (nl) n
• Finnish: päättäväisyys (fi)
• Galician: decisión (gl), determinación (gl), resolución (gl) f
• Hindi: संकल्प (hi) (saṅkalp)
• Japanese: 決意 (ja) (けつい, ketsui), 決心 (ja) (けっしん, kesshin)
• Korean: 결의(決意) (ko) (gyeorui), 결심(決心) (ko) (gyeolsim)
• Polish: zdecydowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: decisão (pt) f
• Romanian: hotărâre (ro) f, fermitate (ro) f
• Russian: реши́тельность (ru) f (rešítelʹnostʹ), реши́мость (ru) f (rešímostʹ)
• Swedish: beslutsamhet (sv) c
• Thai: ความแน่วแน่ (th) (kwaam-nɛ̂ɛo-nɛ̂ɛ)
• Vietnamese: sự quả quyết

result arrived at by the judges

• Afrikaans: beslissing (af)
• Basque: erabaki, epai, ebazpen
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} по то́чки (po tóčki)
• Catalan: decisió (ca) f
• Czech: skóre (cs) n
• Danish: afgørelse c
• Dutch: verdict (nl) n
• Finnish: päätös (fi)
• Galician: decisión (gl) f, veredito
• Georgian: განაჩენი (ganačeni), ვერდიქტი (verdikṭi), გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba), დადგენილება (dadgenileba)
• Greek: απόφαση (του διαιτητή) f (apófasi (tou diaitití))
• Hindi: निर्णय (hi) (nirṇay)
• Icelandic: úrskurður (is) m
• Irish: cinneadh (ga) m, breith f
• Latin: perfīnītiō f (Mediaeval)
• Latvian: spriedums m
• Lithuanian: nutartis f, sprendimas (lt) m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тогтоол (mn) (togtool)

• Portuguese: decisão (pt) f, julgamento (pt) m, veredito (pt) m, sentença (pt) f
• Romanian: sentință (ro) f, hotărâre (ro) f, verdict (ro) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} beskikking
• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} vendim (sq)
• Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} qərar (az)
• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (shidhanto)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} decido
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} otsus
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} הַחְלָטָה (he) f (hakhlat'a)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (nishchaya karana)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} decido (io)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} keputusan (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} decision
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} decisione (it) f
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} decisio f
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} sprendimas (lt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} avgjørelse (no)

• Old English: ^{(please verify)} dōm
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} hotărâre (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} odlučnost (sh) f

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} pevnosť f
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} odločitev (sl) f
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} hukumu (sw)
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} kapasiyahan
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} నిర్ణయం (te) (nirṇayaṁ)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} karar (tr)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} dyfarniad
• West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} beslút
• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} באַשלוס m (bashlus)

Verb

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

Further reading

• decision on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• coin dies, iconised

Lombard

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /det͡ʃiˈsjũː/

Noun

decision f

1. decision

See also

• decision at Lombard Wiktionary

Middle French

Etymology

Derived from Latin, see above.

Noun

decision f (plural decisions)

1. decision

Occitan

Etymology

Derived from Latin dēcīsiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

decision f (plural decisions)

1. decision

Related terms

• decidir