Noun
decision (countable and uncountable, plural decisions)
- The act of deciding.
- 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.
- (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.
- (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.
- (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
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)
- Egyptian Arabic: حكم m (ḥukm)
- Hijazi Arabic: قرار m (garār, qarār)
- South Levantine Arabic: قرار m (qarār)
- Armenian: որոշում (hy) (orošum)
- Azerbaijani: qərar (az)
- 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)
- Czech: rozhodnutí (cs) n
- Danish: beslutning c
- Dutch: beslissing (nl) f, besluit (nl) n
- Esperanto: decido
- Finnish: päätös (fi)
- French: décision (fr) f, arrêt (fr) m
- 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)
- Kazakh: шешім (kk) (şeşım)
- Khmer: សម្រេច (km) (sɑmrac), សាលក្រម (km) (saal krɑm), ការសម្រេចចិត្ត (kaa sɑmrac cət)
- Korean: 결정 (ko) (gyeoljeong)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بڕیار (ckb) (birryar)
- Northern Kurdish: biryar (ku) f, qerar (ku) f
- 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: шийдвэр (mn) (šiidver)
- Ngazidja Comorian: âzma class 9/10
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: beslutning (no) m or f
- Occitan: decision (oc) f
- Oromo: murtii
- Papiamentu: desishon
- 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
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: rozsud m
- Spanish: decisión (es) f
- Swedish: beslut (sv) n
- Tabasaran: къарар (q̄arar)
- Tagalog: pagpasiya
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: рі́шення (uk) n (ríšennja), ви́рішення n (výrišennja)
- Vietnamese: quyết định (vi)
- Zazaki: qerar m, hıkum m
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result arrived at by the judges
- Afrikaans: beslissing (af)
- Basque: erabaki, epai, ebazpen
- Bulgarian: по точки (po točki)
- Catalan: decisió (ca) f
- Czech: skóre (cs) 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))
- 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: 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
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Translations to be checked
Etymology
From Latin, see above.
Pronunciation
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