Collocations for "decided"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "decided" in context.
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decide
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- decide [his fate, the outcome]
- decide between [this one, green] and [that one, blue]
- decided on [green]
- decide on [one thing] or [another]
- decide to [go, take, make]
- decide for yourself
- decide in advance
- decide [in favor, on behalf] of
- decide about the [wedding, color, style]
- can never decide
- [forced, had] to decide
- [in the end, ultimately, finally] she decided
- decide [how, where, when, which]
- decide on a date (for)
- the date [has, is] yet to be decided
'decided' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Britain
- affair
- alone
- alternate
- anyhow
- basis
- board
- career
- change
- coin
- commission
- commissioner
- committee
- consequence
- continue
- contrary
- convention
- conviction
- council
- county
- court
- decide
- dispatch
- ditch
- donor
- enlist
- escort
- eyebrow
- fate
- field
- finally
- flip
- fool
- forsake
- freelance
- friend
- gamble
- goal
- haste
- intelligent
- invite
- jury
- launch
- leaf
- monk
- necessity
- neighbor
- otherwise
- owner
- plump