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What does decisive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
  2. Marked by promptness and decision.
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Intuition and luck, rather than any journalistic skill or dedication, are the decisive factors.
York matched Wharfedale until the last five minutes when they notched a decisive try.
Centrism developed in the 1930s as a decisive obstacle preventing workers from breaking with reformism and Stalinism.
Second preferences on the alternative vote ballot paper are expected to be decisive.
Bear markets have more to do with uncertainty than with decisive gloom, and yo-yoing shares are the clearest possible evidence of that.
However what will be decisive will be the substance and reality of the language creating the offence rather than its form.

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