autonomous decision

collocation in English

meaningsofautonomousanddecision

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autonomous
adjective
uk
/ɔːˈtɒn.ə.məs/us
/ɑːˈtɑː.nə.məs/
independent and having the power to make your ...
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decision
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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(Definition ofautonomousanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The informative view assumes consumer freedom of choice; firms respond to consumer demand by providing information useful to the consumer'sautonomousdecision-making process.
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In business environments, benevolent cooperation is centrally ordered -autonomousdecision-making is only allowed as far as it does not interfere with the business goals of the company.
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This is not to suggest that patients must beautonomousdecisionmakers, nor are they always the best judge of what the best treatment path is.
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There has not been—and cannot be—any compulsion on local authorities to use private finance, as they areautonomousdecision-making bodies.
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Before 7 years old children are said to lack the cognitive development necessary forautonomousdecision-making.
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Practising as anautonomousdecisionmaker, and working within the scope of only what they are formally trained in.
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There is a balance between people having the information required to make anautonomousdecisionand, on the other hand, not being unnecessarily distressed by the truth.
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Counties have the right to take autonomous decisions in certain areas of competence.
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However, permanently unconscious persons and persons with advanced dementia also lack autonomy, but their prior autonomous decisions and preferences continue to have moral weight.
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But what does it mean to abandon the value of autonomy as nonrestriction of options and the capacity to make autonomous decisions?
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The first is a survival lottery for children below an age that they can make autonomous decisions for themselves.
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However, it does not necessarily obliterate one's ability to make rational and autonomous decisions in particular domains of one's life. 19.
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Especially since the 1970s, older pediatric patients sought to make autonomous decisions regarding their own treatment, and sometimes sued successfully to do so.
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