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deciding

[dih-sahy-ding]

adjective

  1. that settles a question or dispute or leads to a final decision; determining; decisive.

    the deciding vote; The weather will be the deciding factor as to whether we have the picnic or not.



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Other Word Forms

  • decidingly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of deciding1

First recorded in 1650–60; decide + -ing 2
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Juries do a fairly good job of deciding certain questions of fact — is somebody guilty or not? — but they are dominated by the more educated people, the more advantaged.

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If that happens then it will almost inevitably trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and possibly Egypt all deciding they need one too.

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Dumfries and Galloway Council said its legal team was considering its position in relation to the court ruling before deciding how to respond.

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For each fragrance, one of them takes “point” — for instance, on Garden Heaux, Lawrence acted as the perfumer and Lin as the fragrance evaluator, deciding whether the scent needed tweaking.

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Twelve months may seem like a long way away, but time passes quickly and it once again flags up the wisdom of Tuchel deciding to start work on 1 January despite being appointed in October.

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