Synonym: determine, judge, resolve, settle. Antonym: hesitate, pause, waver. Similar words: decide on, decision, incident, by accident, side by side, acid, deck, declare. Meaning: [dɪ'saɪd] 
v. 1. reach, make, or come to a decision about something 2. bring to an end; settle conclusively 3. cause to decide 4. influence or determine.
v. 1. reach, make, or come to a decision about something 2. bring to an end; settle conclusively 3. cause to decide 4. influence or determine. 
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181. Get a couple of quotations from different companies before you decide which one to use.
182. The results will decide if he will win a place at a good university.
183. The concert may prove an expensive flop unless more people decide to go.
183. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
184. They now have two weeks to decide whether or not to buy.
185. Stand the paintings against the wall while we decide where to hang them.
186. She asked if /whether I wanted a drink., although whether sounds more natural with particular verbs such as discuss, consider and decide. When a choice is offered between alternatives if or whether can be used:He didn't know if /whether we should write or phone. In this last type of sentence, whether is usually considered more formal and more suitable for written English.
187. Managers have to decide how much rope to give their subordinates.
188. He might decide that it is best to induce labour.
189. I'm weighing up my options before I decide to apply for the job.
190. Only when we have weighed all the factors involved can we decide when would be the best time to start.
191. You could get into a situation where you have to decide immediately.
192. We must decide on our target market, then zero in on it.
193. I do not arrogate to myself the right to decide.
194. I floundered around trying to decide what I ought to do next.
195. Have the house surveyed before you decide whether to buy it.
196. The plan has been for the rival armies to demobilise, to unify, and then to hold elections to decide who rules.
197. I can't decide until I've heard both sides of the story.
198. Is it more democratic to hold a referendum, rather than let the government alone decide?
199. Today we have the freedom to decide our own futures.
200. I can't decide whether to go after the job or not.
201. You must check the evidence against other sources and decide if it is reliable.
202. Let's spin a coin to decide who'll have the first turn.
203. You might want to consider temporary work until you decide what you want to do.
204. We need to decide soon what marketing strategy we should pursue for these new products.
205. If you decide you would prefer the more expensive model, you can bring this one back and pay the difference.
206. A number of factors decide whether a movie will be successful or not.
207. He was trying to decide whether the question was some sort of a trap.
208. If you ever decide to sell your car, please give me the first refusal of it.
209. Take your skates in case you decide to go skating.
210. It would be better to decide it on the toss of a coin.
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