decision

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Noun

 * 1) The act of deciding.
 * 2) A choice or judgement.
 * 3)  Firmness of conviction.
 * 4)  A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
 * 5)  A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
 * 1)  Firmness of conviction.
 * 2)  A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
 * 3)  A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
 * 1)  A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
 * 1)  A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.

Usage notes

 * Most often, to decide something is to a decision; however, other possibilities exist as well. Many verbs used with  or, such as , , and  can also be used with ; these serve to emphasize that the decision is the result of deliberation. Finally, some varieties of English prefer to  a decision rather than  one.
 * See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of decision collocated with these words.

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

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akan: gyinaesi
 * Arabic:, تَصْمِيم
 * Egyptian Arabic: حكم
 * Hijazi Arabic: قرار
 * South Levantine Arabic: قرار
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: erabaki
 * Belarusian: рашэ́нне
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 決定
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: beslutning
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: decido
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: გადაწყვეტილება
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, फ़ैसला
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:, , ការសម្រេចចិត្ត
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: consultum, dēcrētum
 * Latvian: lēmums, apņemšanās
 * Lezgi: къарар
 * Lithuanian:, nutarimas
 * Macedonian: одлука
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: deċiżjoni
 * Maori: tatūnga
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: вашмут
 * Middle French: decision
 * Mizo: thutlûkna
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: âzma
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Oromo: murtii
 * Papiamentu: desishon
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: одлука, решење
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: rozhodnutie
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rozsud
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: къарар
 * Tagalog: pagpasiya
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:, ви́рішення
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zazaki: qerar, hıkum


 * Afrikaans:
 * Basque: erabaki
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: rozhodnost
 * Danish: beslutsomhed
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: sự quả quyết


 * Afrikaans:
 * Basque: erabaki, epai, ebazpen
 * Bulgarian: по точки
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: afgørelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: განაჩენი, ვერდიქტი, გადაწყვეტილება, დადგენილება
 * Greek: απόφαση (του διαιτητή)
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:, breith
 * Latin: perfīnītiō
 * Latvian: spriedums
 * Lithuanian: nutartis,
 * Mongolian:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:, ,


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bengali:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Georgian:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Mandarin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:

Verb

 * 1)  To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout

Etymology
From, see above.

Etymology
From.