deciding

Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.

Adjective

  1. Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.
    • The cost turned out to be the deciding factor in our final choice.
    • Do you know what was the deciding thing made me marry Mark Bycourt in the end? Yes: Cyril. I'm fond of boys, Mr Carrados, and I want them to have their chance in life. - 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
    • Justice [Anthony] Kennedy often casts the deciding vote in closely divided cases on major social issues. - 2018 June 4, Adam Liptak, “In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple”, in...

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Noun

  1. The act of making a decision.
    • She saw to my meals; but the what and the when and the how of our eating was always controlled by her own decidings. - 2005, Walter Wangerin Jr., Jesus: A Novel, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 372:
    • By keeping the court's public work mystified and secret, the justices, like [Clarence] Thomas, denigrate how important the actual deciding of cases is to the American people. - 2007 November 30, Dahlia Lithwick, “Open...

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Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of decide