Usually means: Make a choice from options.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word decide:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. decide: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. decide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decide, decide: Wordnik
  7. decide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decide: Wiktionary
  9. decide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. decide: Dictionary.com
  13. decide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Decide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. decide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. decide: Rhymezone
  19. decide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. decide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. decide: Free Dictionary
  22. decide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. decide: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. decide: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. decide: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. decide: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. decide: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decide: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DECIDE: Acronym Finder
  2. decide: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decide: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DECIDE: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See decidability as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) to resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle
▸ verb:  (intransitive) to make a judgment, especially after deliberation
▸ verb:  (transitive) to cause someone to come to a decision
▸ verb:  (obsolete) to cut off; to separate

Similar:
resolve, settle, determine, choose, want, proceed, should, will, intend, consider, more...

Opposite:
hesitate, vacillate, waver, dither, equivocate

Types:
judge, rule, find, conclude, determine, resolve, decree, rule out, decide on, more...

Phrases:
decide on, decide upon, decide between, decide against, decide in favor of, more...

Colors:
    teal,     emerald,     maroon,     charcoal,     indigo,     olive,     burgundy,     forest green,     rust,     mustard


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Similar:
resolve, settle, determine, choose, want, proceed, should, will, intend, consider, more...

Opposite:
hesitate, vacillate, waver, dither, equivocate

Types:
judge, rule, find, conclude, determine, resolve, decree, rule out, decide on, more...

Phrases:
decide on, decide upon, decide between, decide against, decide in favor of, Free to Decide, unable to decide, decide you will, to decide, cant decide, decide not to, no hurry to decide, decide to participate, more...

Colors:
    teal,     emerald,     maroon,     charcoal,     indigo,     olive,     burgundy,     forest green,     rust,     mustard



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