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decisiveness

/dih-sahy-siv/US // dɪˈsaɪ sɪv //UK // (dɪˈsaɪsɪv) //

果断性,决断力,果断,决断性

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
    • : characterized by or displaying no or little hesitation; resolute; determined: The general was known for his decisive manner.
    • : indisputable; definite: a decisive defeat.
    • : unsurpassable; commanding: a decisive lead in the voting.

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Examples

  • They acted in a civil, as I’ve already said, but a decisive and professional manner.

  • A few weeks later, the city’s Republican mayor took a rare trip to the Metropolitan Transit System to cast the decisive vote that made her the agency’s chair.

  • For that reason, only a small group of leading companies had taken decisive action before the pandemic hit.

  • In May, the International Red Cross and representatives of other groups called for “the world’s governments to take immediate and decisive action to prevent and stop cyberattacks” against the health sector.

  • With a need for private and public partners to take decisive action, create long-term solutions, and safeguard families for both the present and the future.

  • He must be a symbol of decisiveness, wisdom, and compassion.

  • Nothing like a former Communist country to show how to handle a problem—they have a long ignoble history of decisiveness.

  • Rather, it takes strategy, sharp eyesight, a quick finger, and a right-now decisiveness to play the game well.

  • They typically step forward to calm the nerves, ease the panic, and provide rapid decisiveness for those too stunned to react.

  • But patients hate this—they want easy decisiveness and jolly confidence as we march calmly, peacefully over the horizon together.

  • Her death had never been even a remote possibility to his mind, though the parting had had the decisiveness of death.

  • "Not much chance of that," said Aunt Maria with her usual decisiveness.

  • "Of course," said Buck, turning to him with sombre decisiveness.

  • The present, where we might expect the future, conveys the certainty and decisiveness of the result.

  • He is a most intelligent man, and speaks with such fluent decisiveness that all he says carries conviction.

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