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What is the noun for decision making?

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decision
  1. The act of deciding.
  2. A choice or judgement.
  3. (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
  4. (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
  5. (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “My parents had questioned my decision to study abroad, but it had never turned into an argument.”
      “The judge's decision was greeted with dismay by the public.”
      “One of his strengths as an entrepreneur was his ability to move forward with decision.”
decider
  1. (of a controversy, question, etc) A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
  2. (chiefly Britain, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
  3. (computing) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The finals of the soccer tournament will be the decider, determining the champion of the season.”
      “The decider will play a crucial role in choosing the winner of the competition.”
      “Comfortable and with the minimum of fuss, St Louis had done more than enough to seal their place in the decider against St Columb's of Derry.”
decisionism
  1. The doctrine that moral or legal precepts are the product of decisions made by political or legal bodies
  2. (Christianity) A theology that stresses the importance of the decision to become a Christian for salvation. Often this decision takes the form of the sinner's prayer.
  3. Synonyms:
decisor
decision-making
  1. Alternative form of decision making
  2. attributive form of decision making
  3. Examples:
    1. “The present centralised structure of the education system does not lend itself to agility in decision-making.”
      “Selling calves at weaning provided the most variation in the decision-making outcomes.”
      “The former cabinet secretary has long been critical of the decline of cabinet decision-making.”
decisioning
  1. Decision making, especially by means of a formal computational methodology.
decisionmaking
  1. Alternative form of decision making
  2. Examples:
    1. “There is a difference, he observes, between intelligent decentralized decisionmaking and slavish imitation.”
      “Imaging, analyzing, and decisionmaking, which once proceeded in distinct, often lengthy, sequential steps, now occur almost simultaneously.”
      “Miller returned to battalion headquarters to conduct an abbreviated military decisionmaking process.”
decidability
  1. (logic) the state or condition of being decidable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Both the decidability results and undecidablity results extend in various ways to Boolean algebras in extensions of first-order logic.”
      “This result generalises a number of decidability results concerning bisimilarity, for example for counter automata, or PDA without state.”
      “Feyerabend took this requirement seriously enough to characterize observation sentences pragmatically in terms of widespread decidability.”
decision maker
  1. alternative form of decisionmaker
decisiveness
  1. The state or quality of being decisive.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Macon Leary's unassertiveness is in timely contrast to Sarah's decisiveness and Muriel's zeal.”
      “Nevertheless, Smith feels the new restrictions can only engender more decisiveness in transfer decisions.”
      “Some years ago, I was in Judge Gladys Kessler's courtroom and admired the crisp decisiveness of her judicial temperament.”
decidedness
  1. The state or quality of being decided.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Wade felt an inexplicable hurt at the decidedness of little Rose's preference for Martin.”
      “It bespeaks the decidedness of one confirmed in his philosophical ways, and it thereby perhaps also demonstrates just a little predictability, just a little intransigence.”
      “The decidedness of the struggles in London and Düsseldorf reassures all of us to no longer accept the dictatorship of money and profits.”
decision making
  1. The process of reaching a decision.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This chapter began by describing the so-called sequential model of decision making.”
      “He now has speed over the ground to complement his already impressive decision making ability.”
      “I've blogged several times before about inherent problems in human decision making.”
decisionist
  1. A proponent of decisionism
decidement
  1. (obsolete) Means of forming a decision.
decisionmaker
decision makers
  1. plural of decision maker
decisionmakers
  1. plural of decisionmaker
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When water is the new currency and the US is bone dry, the Canadians will be the players and decisionmakers.”
      “The majority of external decisionmakers confirmed the importance of taking time to develop relationships.”
      “Research results must be communicated compellingly to decisionmakers, opinion leaders, and the broader public.”
decidabilities
  1. plural of decidability
decisionists
  1. plural of decisionist
decisions
  1. plural of decision
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This theory carries a wagonload of design decisions with it, and I'm afraid they aren't easy design decisions.”
      “Postpone those decisions that can wait until you feel more able to deal with them.”
      “What could the Supreme Court do if these politicians refused to abide by its decisions?”
deciders
decisors
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