decision-making

American  

[dih-sizh-uhn-mey-king] / dɪˈsɪʒ ənˌmeɪ kɪŋ /

Or decision making or decisionmaking

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.

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Other Word Forms

• decision-maker
  noun

Etymology

Origin of decision-making

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

However, when these systems need to perform nonlinear activation steps, such as decision-making operations, they usually must convert light signals back into electronic ones.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

“The goal has always been velocity and one of the best ways of increasing velocity is making decision-making faster.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Johnston plays poor Bear as a quivering mess wracked with guilt that this monster — who used to be his friend — is the result of his own terrible decision-making.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Mitchell and Pomerleau argue the exclusion is inefficient, distorts economic decision-making, and treats taxpayers with similar levels of income differently.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Unless the pace of decision-making accelerated, he knew, the fair would fall irreparably behind schedule, yet if anything the barriers to efficiency were increasing in size and number.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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