/dɪˈsɪʒn/
Translation
A choice you make after thinking about what to do.
Word origin
From Latin decidere, meaning to cut off, and so to settle a question for good.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- decidere
- English cognates
- decide, decisive
Grammar
Examples
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"Decision" means the choice she made in the end.
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You "make" a decision in English; you do not "take" one.
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"Decisions" is the plural form.
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Grammar articles
(9)Articles in English: a, an, the and the zero article
Cleft sentences in English: it was X who, what I need is, and how to move the emphasis
Conditional sentences in English: the four types explained
Countable and uncountable nouns in English: advice, information, news and the ones you simply have to learn
Future continuous and future perfect in English: will be doing vs will have done
Future tense in English: will, going to and more explained
Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things
Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
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