deciding

deciding (usually uncountable, plural decidings)

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 5 October 2023:
  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 (comparative more deciding, superlative most deciding)

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 15 September 2023:
  Justice [Anthony] Kennedy often casts the deciding vote in closely divided cases on major social issues.

resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion

deciding

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