What does deciding mean?

Definitions for deciding
dɪˈsaɪ dɪŋde·cid·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. decision making, decidingadjective

    the cognitive process of reaching a decision

    "a good executive must be good at decision making"

  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. Deciding

    of Decide

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'deciding' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4669

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of deciding in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of deciding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of deciding in a Sentence

  1. Scott C. Holstad:

    i always like trying to catch a bus in a new city wondering how will i know which one to take and simply deciding this one as it pulls up and looking at the natives looking at me and getting off at the end wondering where the hell i am and how will i get back.

  2. Sebastian Coe:

    You have to say that the scope and scale of these allegations takes it beyond simply a competitor deciding to step beyond the moral boundary, this is not in every country of the world, there are 213 federations. But you do have to say a disproportionate amount of the reputational damage is in a relatively small number of countries, and I think we have to recognize this.

  3. Narayana Kocherlakota:

    Deciding not to reduce stimulus in 2015 would be consistent with a goal-oriented approach to the employment mandate.

  4. David Jacobson:

    The Germans have taken this disease seriously since December. They are committed to transparency, testing and have devoted a huge amount of resources to track sources of what appears to be community spread so that the root cause of each chain can be found and those connected in any way can be warned, isolated, tested, etc., on March 3, the Italian government was still deciding if this was an Asian problem or something different. When an Italian Senator wore a face mask to the senate chambers, he was ridiculed.

  5. Jordan Spieth:

    I was deciding whether to go over( the bunker) or short of it and instead I took the club that was right in-between and tried to throw it up in the air to get it close to the bunker, it was just trying to make up for the hole before.

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