decision

See also: décision and decisión

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, decisionis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪʒən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Noun

decision (countable and uncountable, plural decisions)

1. The act of deciding.
2. A choice or judgement.
   • 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.

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

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

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.
• Adjectives often applied to "decision": important, difficult, big, tough, bad, informed, easy, personal, smart, poor, good, quick, major, strategic, wise, serious, hard, stupid, hasty, responsible, complex, prudent, deliberate, significant, collective, delayed, challenging, careful, foolish, small, rash, thoughtful, slow, clever, forced, uninformed.

Derived terms

• decisioning
• decision maker
• decision making
• decision problem

• decision procedure
• decision theory
• decision tree
• indecision

Related terms

• decide
• decisive

Translations

choice or judgement

• Arabic: قَرَار (ar) m (qarār), تَصْمِيم m (taṣmīm)

  Egyptian Arabic: حكم m (ḥukm)

• Armenian: որոշում (hy) (orošum)
• Basque: erabaki
• Belarusian: рашэ́нне n (rašénnje)
• Bulgarian: реше́ние (bg) n (rešénie)
• Catalan: decisió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 決定／决定 (kyut³ ding⁶)

  Mandarin: 決定／决定 (zh) (juédìng), 决定 (zh) (juédìng)

• Czech: rozhodnutí (cs) n
• Danish: beslutning c
• Dutch: beslissing (nl) f, besluit (nl) n
• Esperanto: decido
• Finnish: päätös (fi)
• French: décision (fr) f
• Georgian: გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba)
• German: Entscheidung (de) f, Beschluss (de) m
• 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
• 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)
• Khmer: សម្រេច (km) (sɑmrac), សាលក្រម (km) (saal krɑm), ការសម្រេចចិត្ត (kaa sɑmrac cət)
• Korean: 결정 (ko) (gyeoljeong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: consultum n, dēcrētum n
• Latvian: lēmums m, apņemšanās
• Lithuanian: sprendimas (lt) m, nutarimas m
• Macedonian: одлука f (odluka)
• Malay: keputusan
• Maltese: deċiżjoni f
• Maori: tatūnga
• Middle French: decision f
• Mizo: thutlûkna
• Mongolian: шийдвэр (mn) (šiidver)
• Ngazidja Comorian: âzma class 9/10
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beslutning (no) m or f

• Occitan: decision (oc) f
• Persian: تصمیم (fa) (tasmim)
• 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
• Spanish: decisión (es) f
• Swedish: beslut (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: рі́шення (uk) n (ríšennja), ви́рішення n (výrišennja)
• Vietnamese: quyết định (vi)

firmness of conviction

• Basque: erabaki
• Bulgarian: реши́телност (bg) f (rešítelnost)
• Czech: rozhodnost f
• Danish: beslutsomhed c
• Dutch: beslissing (nl) f, besluit (nl) n
• Finnish: päätös (fi)
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• Japanese: 決意 (ja) (ketsui), 決心 (ja) (kesshin)
• 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

result arrived at by the judges

• Basque: erabaki, epai, ebazpen
• Bulgarian: по точки (po točki)
• Catalan: decisió (ca) f
• Czech: skóre n
• Danish: afgørelse c
• Dutch: verdict (nl) n
• Finnish: päätös (fi)
• Georgian: განაჩენი (ganačeni), ვერდიქტი (verdikṭi), გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba), დადგენილება (dadgenileba)
• Greek: απόφαση (του διαιτητή) f (apófasi (tou diaitití))
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• Icelandic: úrskurður m
• Irish: cinneadh (ga) m, breith f
• Latin: perfīnītiō f (Mediaeval)
• Latvian: spriedums m
• Lithuanian: nutartis f, sprendimas (lt) m
• Mongolian: 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)
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} قرار (ar) m
• Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} qərar (az)
• (deprecated template usage) Bengali: (shidhanto)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} decido
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} otsus
• French: ^{(please verify)} décision (fr) f
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} הַחְלָטָה (he) f (hakhlat'a)
• (deprecated template usage) Hindi: (nishchaya karana)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} decido (io)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} keputusan (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} decision
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} decisione (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 결정 (ko) (gyeoljeong)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} decisio f
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} lēmums
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} sprendimas (lt)
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} одлука f (odluka)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 决定 (zh) (juédìng)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} avgjørelse (no)
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} dōm
• Papiamentu: ^{(please verify)} desishon
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} تصمیم (fa)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} hotărâre (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(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)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} การตัดสินใจ (th) (gaan dtàt-sĭn jai)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} karar (tr)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} ви́рішення f (výrišennja)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} sự giải quyết
• 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

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Anagrams

• coin dies, iconised

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Middle French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, see above

Noun

decision f (plural decisions)

1. decision

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin dēcīsiō.

Noun

decision f (plural decisions)

1. decision

Related terms

• decidir