DECISIVE MOVE collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)

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meanings of decisive and move

decisive

adjective

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/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/us

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/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/

able to make decisions quickly and confidently, or showing ...

move

noun

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/muːv/us

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/muːv/

Examples of decisive move

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Modernisation must also mean a decisive move away from the old-fashioned confrontational methods of pay bargaining.

The assessment that we propose is a decisive move away from treating pensioners in the same way as those of working age.

But we also now need a decisive move towards industrial democracy so that trade unionists are genuinely involved in all major industrial decisions.

But he could not muster the courage to make the decisive move on his own.

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There he found a sudden, bold, decisive move could reap large dividends.

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At the end of that season a deliberate and decisive move saw the club decide not to pay players.

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It marked the final and decisive move away from a tax regime based on envy to a tax regime designed to promote enterprise and efficiency and thus to enhance prosperity.

I am to be involved in this area of activity at a time when there is a real chance of making a decisive move forward towards better community care.

He was one of two who managed to escape the battle, this was to be a decisive move for the future of the war.

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He was aware that this was the last decisive move of his career; there would be no more travelling to far-flung places.

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