decision making

See also: decisionmaking and decision-making

English

Alternative forms

• decision-making, decisionmaking

Pronunciation

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Noun

decision making (uncountable)

1. The process of reaching a decision.
   • 2011 January 25, Dave Clarke, “Panel says financial crisis avoidable”, in Reuters:

     The financial crisis could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision making both in Washington and at top financial firms that fostered a culture of excessive risk taking, according to a draft report written by Democrats on a panel that investigated the meltdown and obtained by Reuters

Related terms

• decision maker

Translations

process of reaching a decision

• Azerbaijani: qərarların qəbul edilməsi
• Catalan: presa de decisions (ca) f
• Czech: rozhodování (cs) n
• Danish: beslutningstagning c
• Dutch: besluitvorming (nl) f
• Finnish: päätöksenteko (fi)
• French: prise de décision f
• German: Entscheidungsfindung (de) f, Beschlussfassung (de) f
• Hungarian: döntéshozás (hu), döntéshozatal (hu)
• Irish: cinnteoireacht f
• Japanese: 意思決定 (ja) (ishi kettei)
• Korean: 의사 결정 (uisa gyeoljeong)
• Portuguese: tomada de decisão (pt) f
• Spanish: toma de decisiones
• Swedish: beslutsfattande (sv) n
• Turkish: karar verme

See also

• decision science
• decision theory

Further reading

• decision-making on Wikipedia.Wikipedia