split decision
[ C ]
in baseball, a win or a loss that is officially given to one of the pitchers(= players who throw the ball) based on their performance in a game:
He was only the sixth pitcher ever to win 16 of his first 17 decisions in a season.
He lost a majority decision by the thinnest of margins.
The Colorado pitcher has lost his tenth game in fifteen decisions.
Only two pitchers have worse winning percentages among those with at least 25 decisions.

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decision | American Dictionary

decision
noun[ C ]
us/dɪˈsɪʒ·ən/
something you choose; a choice:
The board will make its decision shortly.
[ + to infinitive ]Their decision not to attend the party puzzled everyone.

Examples of decision

decision
The central claim of this paper is that decision-making cannot be understood purely at the group level.
As regards psychological distress, no association was found with decision latitude, while conflicts at work increased the risk of psychological distress.
To isolate the problem, assume that if satisfactory reasoning is not forthcoming, the decision can be reversed.
Reliability between reviewers (regarding the decision to include or exclude an article) was calculated using kappa statistics.
In the simulations we presented, the decision nodes are effectively the output representations.
After death, family members reported the actual family involvement in health care decisions near death.
Two decisions have far-reaching implications for the validity of the results reported in this review.
Recent legislation requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to present economic evaluations when requesting reimbursement decisions will probably have an important impact in the future.
His decision to exclude secondary stresses (1999: 14), but to include two 'equal' stresses, is very problematic.
Information is valuable because it reduces the expected costs of uncertainty surrounding clinical decisions.
This was both a political and a technical decision.
From the sociotechnical viewpoint, technical decisions, social interaction, and conflict management are the three essential components in the collaborative design process.
They were told to read and make the decision as quickly and accurately as possible.
She took this decision primarily based on moralistic ground.
Therefore, these methods implicitly assume that there is no uncertainty surrounding the decision that the proposed research is supposed to inform.
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decision

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active investment decision
Hence, there is a clear positive relation between income and an active investmentdecision.
administrative decision
If a government body takes an administrativedecision then this in many cases should not be based on an inductive argument but on regulations.
admission decision
Thus, the conditional (on the admissiondecision) effect is estimated.
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