Synonyms:
deciding(a), determinant, determinative, determining(a)
Meaning: having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
decision_making, deciding
Meaning: the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making"
Usage examples
It was no ordinary action they were deciding.
Deciding to come this way, they prosecuted their journey with uncommon perseverance and success.
Her movement might have been for some finer emphasis of what she was at once hesitating and deciding to say.
At 9 we got up, deciding to have tea, and with one biscuit, no pemmican, so as to leave our scanty remaining meal for eventualities.
She came on meekly after him, scarcely thinking in her stupor where she was going, and glad (in a dead, heavy way) that some one was deciding things for her.
Ginger remembered the pangs of hunger, of which excitement had momentarily rendered him oblivious, and, deciding that there was no time like the present, took a cake from the stand and began to consume it in silence.
The House of Representatives has only twice exercised its conditional privilege of deciding in cases of uncertainty; the first time was at the election of Mr. Jefferson in 1801; the second was in 1825, when Mr. Quincy Adams was named.