decision-making

Or de·ci·sion mak·ing
Or de·ci·sion·mak·ing

[dih-sizh-uhn-mey-king]

noun

1. the act or process of making choices or decisions with a group of people, especially in business or politics (often used attributively).

   decision-making skills.

Other Word Forms

• decision-maker noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of decision-making¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

The separation of church and state, they hope, can somehow be made to guarantee that religion plays no role in the decision-making processes of private citizens as they undertake their public duty as voters.

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AI is a “force multiplier” that will lift productivity across all lines of business, particularly in engineering, where significant increases are already visible, but not a means to replace human decision-making, Bidarkoppa said.

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He warned that authoritarian regimes are increasingly willing to sabotage critical infrastructure in order to "impede decision-making, damage the economy, undermine war-fighting capability and sow social discord".

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Scion Capital’s decision-making apparatus consisted of one guy in a room, with the door closed and the shades drawn, poring over publicly available information and data on 10-K Wizard.

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A union says it is concerning but Lloyds said "aggregated, anonymised data" had been used "in order to ensure compliance with regulations and to reflect common practice of using data to underpin decision-making".

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