Collocations for "decide"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "decide" 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
'decide' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
administrator
- advisor
- age
- agency
- alternate
- authority
- contact
- date
- detail
- director
- discretion
- divine
- early
- enough
- eternity
- fate
- feasible
- fine
- flip
- free
- freedom
- genuine
- guidance
- harvest
- hasty
- hear
- hour
- instead
- judge
- me
- medication
- meet
- merit
- message
- minor
- minute
- move
- otherwise
- panel
- path
- people
- pregnant
- publish
- rash
- remedy
- right
- sample
- sampling
- step
- tell