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Decision   /dɪsˈɪʒən/   Listen
Decision

noun
1.
The act of making up your mind about something.  Synonyms: conclusion, determination.  "He drew his conclusions quickly"
2.
A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration.  Synonyms: conclusion, determination.  "His conclusion took the evidence into account" , "Satisfied with the panel's determination"
3.
(boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred.
4.
The outcome of a game or contest.
5.
The trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose.  Synonym: decisiveness.  Antonyms: indecisiveness, indecision.



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"Decision" Quotes from Famous Books



... to earth as he reached this decision; like a condemned man on his last earthly day, he set about the doing of the unimportant but necessary duties that lay between the dawn and the night. With no joy did Sandy Morley anticipate his great change. He only realized the "call," and in a subtle, compelling way he felt himself ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock
... particularly protected. But, my Lords, what he particularly valued himself upon I shall give your Lordships in his own words:—"I delivered the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor; and after proof of the oppression, whether on the property or the person, the decision which I passed between them was agreeable to the sacred law; and I did not cause any one person to suffer for the guilt ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... to do it at any cost, and these people might be useful to her, while it was plain that her purposes and her schemes for pushing them would not find favor in the eyes of the Antiques. If it came to choice—and it might come to that, sooner or later—she believed she could come to a decision without much difficulty ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 4. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... desire for, to force acceptance of League, resulting delay, delay, delay on League causes definitive rather than preliminary treaty subjects for a preliminary treaty influence of lack of American programme Wilson's decision for a definitive treaty Lansing's views of finished treaty British opinion protests of experts and officials of American Commission Lansing ...
— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing
... passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte


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