What does Deciding mean?
Definitions for Deciding
dɪˈsaɪ dɪŋde·cid·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Deciding.
Princeton's WordNet
decision making, decidingadjective
the cognitive process of reaching a decision
"a good executive must be good at decision making"
deciding(a), determinant, determinative, determining(a)adjective
having the power or quality of deciding
"the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
ChatGPT
deciding
Deciding is the act of making a choice or coming to a resolution after careful thought and consideration of various options or possibilities. It involves analyzing the potential outcomes or consequences associated with each option and then selecting the one that appears most desirable or beneficial based on those evaluations. It is a cognitive process characterized by the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possibilities.
Webster Dictionary
Deciding
of Decide
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Deciding' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4669
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Deciding in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Deciding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Deciding in a Sentence
It’s well-warranted, i mean, the South’s growing.There’s a lot of people moving here and we should be involved in the process of deciding who the nominees will be.
Any decision that you make in your life that's purely for money usually doesn't end up going the right way, obviously, money is a deciding factor in a lot of things in this world, but if it's purely for money, it's not, it never seems to go the way you want it to.
It would limit our space in deciding our future.
Deciding when to get pregnant, or whether or not to get pregnant, can be an intensely personal decision. This data should not be used to influence decisions about childbearing, as the cancer risks observed are overall fairly modest, as well as on a large population level, and it's difficult to extrapolate these risks to an individual person, however, evaluating personal cancer risk in a premenopausal woman is important.
They are in legal nomads land, this [ announcement ] does not make shooting up legal. What it is, is a decision about what to prosecute, and the city is deciding it will not use its police to prosecute the people who shoot up in the safe injection site.
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