decide on something/someone

decide | American Dictionary

decide
verb
us/dɪˈsɑɪd/
to choose between one possibility or another:
[ T ]I decided I would try it.
[ + to infinitive ]In the end, we decided to go to the theater.
[ + question word ]We’re trying to decide how to proceed.
[ + (that) clause ]He decided (that) it was his business.
If something decides a result in a competition, it causes that result:
[ T ]A mistake by our team decided the game against us.
A deciding factor is something so important that it forces a particular decision:
The deciding factor in choosing this school was that it was far from home.

Examples of decide

decide
A central issue here is in deciding where 'continuity' resides.
I decided not to leave my tape recorder home.
In the event the workers decided to take whatever risk might be involved in displaying the picture.
Making the decision : instances of a relatively proactive and planned approach to deciding that placement was needed.
Instead, we decided to draw on our own collaborative experiences with the ' aging and society ' paradigm.
Eventually, she decided to take over full-time caring, and chose not to renew the contract with the agency.
In order to meet these objections, it was decided to focus on ' orientation towards living in an old home ' as the dependent variable.
When a teacher decides to work with the extra vocabulary, one theme requires three sessions per week over a four-week period.
The designer also decides a priority order among the components.
The engineer decides how to use the input as admission, omission, or rejection.
Later, she decided to drop him from her list of potential interviewees.
Thus, it was decided to test the hypothesis that childhood trauma and neuroticism scores might be significantly related.
One generation later, young businessmen with a higher level of education than their predecessors have decided to enter the political arena themselves.
We therefore decided to pool the 4 different mixed treatments together prior to further hypothesis testing.
When deciding to attend the theatre, what factors most strongly affect which show you choose?
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