deciding

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

deciding (usually uncountable, plural decidings)

1. The act of making a decision.
   • 2005, Walter Wangerin Jr., Jesus: A Novel, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 372:

     She saw to my meals; but the what and the when and the how of our eating was always controlled by her own decidings.

   • 2007 November 30, Dahlia Lithwick, “Open Books”, in Slate‎, archived from the original on 2023-10-05:

     By keeping the court's public work mystified and secret, the justices, like [Clarence] Thomas, denigrate how important the actual deciding of cases is to the American people.

deciding (not comparable)

1. Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.

   The cost turned out to be the deciding factor in our final choice.

   • 2018 June 4, Adam Liptak, “In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-15:

     Justice [Anthony] Kennedy often casts the deciding vote in closely divided cases on major social issues.

deciding

1. present participle and gerund of decide