make a decision

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To make a decision is to settle on what you are going to do. The weighing stops and the choosing happens.

English says make rather than take a decision, though take is used in British formal writing and both are correct. It takes about or on. There is a whole vocabulary around it: a snap decision is made instantly, a considered decision took time, and decision fatigue is the real exhaustion that comes from making too many in a day.

Definitions of make a decision

1phrasemake a decisionTo choose what to do after considering the options.B1
“They will have to make a decision before Friday.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Common Word Pairs

First appears in chapter 33 of A Man Called Ove.

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make a decision

phraseB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To make a decision is to settle on what you are going to do. The weighing stops and the choosing happens.

Definitions of make a decision

1phrasemake a decisionTo choose what to do after considering the options.B1
“They will have to make a decision before Friday.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Common Word Pairs

First appears in chapter 33 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word