decision making

1. 1.

   the cognitive process of reaching a decision

   “a good executive must be good at decision making”

   Synonymsdeciding

   Broaderhigher cognitive process

   Narrowerumpiragedeterminationeclecticismgroupthinksettlementjudgmentreversalchoiceculloption

Questions about decision making

What does decision making mean?

decision making means "the cognitive process of reaching a decision".

What is another word for decision making?

Close synonyms include deciding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is decision making a common word?

decision making is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.