decision
determination conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something, the burden of decision was his, he drew his conclusions quickly |
| judgment judgement assessment | the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event, they criticized my judgment of the contestants |
value judgment
value judgement | an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed |
judgment
judgement
judicial decision | (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it |
confession of judgment
confession of judgement
cognovit judgment
cognovit judgement | a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings |
default judgment
default judgement
judgment by default
judgement by default | a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court) |
final judgment
final decision | a judgment disposing of the case before the court, after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment |
judgment in personam
judgement in personam
personal judgment
personal judgement | a judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages |
judgment in rem
judgement in rem | a judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons) |
judgment of dismissal
judgement of dismissal
dismissal | a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial |
judgment on the merits
judgement on the merits | judgment rendered through analysis and adjudication of the factual issues presented |
summary judgment
summary judgement
judgment on the pleadings
judgement on the pleadings | a judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law |
| Bakke decision | a ruling by the Supreme Court on affirmative action, the Court ruled in that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy |
decisiveness
decision | the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose, a man of unusual decisiveness |
judgment
judgement
sound judgment
sound judgement
perspicacity | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions |
sagacity
sagaciousness
judgment judgement discernment | the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations |
decision making
deciding | the cognitive process of reaching a decision, a good executive must be good at decision making |
judgment
judgement
judging | the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions |
| judgment judgement mind | an opinion formed by judging something, he was reluctant to make his judgment known, she changed her mind |
decision
determination
conclusion | a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration, a decision unfavorable to the opposition, his conclusion took the evidence into account, satisfied with the panel's determination |
opinion
legal opinion
judgment
judgement | the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision, opinions are usually written by a single judge |
| decision table | a table of all contingencies and the actions to be taken for each |
| decision | the outcome of a game or contest, the team dropped three decisions in a row |
| decision | (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred, had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision over his opponent |
| split decision | a boxing decision in which the judges are not unanimous |
administrator
decision maker | someone who administers a business |
d Judgment Day
Judgement Day
Day of Judgment
Day of Judgement
Doomsday
Last Judgment
Last Judgement
Last Day
eschaton
day of reckoning
doomsday
crack of doom
end of the world | (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives |