strategic decision

collocation in English

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strategic
adjective
uk
/strəˈtiː.dʒɪk/us
/strəˈtiː.dʒɪk/
helping to achieve a plan, for example in business ...
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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 ofstrategicanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some interests, depending on the degree of capture, can become more or less invisible to thestrategicdecision-making of both political parties.
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This is astrategicdecision, designed to protect some in-house provision and expertise.
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To put it simply, refugees arestrategicdecision-makers, not only when they decide to flee but also when they decide to return.
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This type of feedback, corresponding to around 1% of feedback instances, involved the intermediary or user making astrategicdecisionby looking at terms in an inverted file.
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On the one hand, a powerful health reform movement emerged and took thestrategicdecisionto move inside the state apparatus to carry forward its project of targeting the poor.
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The duration and stage of the infringement proceeding is astrategicdecisionon the part of the member state, and not necessarily a reflection of the severity of the infringement.
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Thus, in the example given above, my youthful decision to marry is not (we must hope) simply astrategicdecisiontaken in the belief that it will advance my interests.
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That is thestrategicdecisionwe should be looking at and that we discussed in the past.
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We are not confident about its attitude to this majorstrategicdecision.
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On that occasion, rather than a tactical it was astrategicdecisionto vote for the amendment.
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They will be there to guide the deliberations of the board and take part instrategicdecision-making.
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A contentiousstrategicdecisionwas taken not to relocate the old asylum to the new hospital site.
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Any business worth its salt undertakes such audits on past investment or otherstrategicdecision.
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There are two contracts in, and nostrategicdecisionwas taken to contract out.
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People might accept thestrategicdecisionon privatisation, but have doubts about the structure—the so-called fragmentation.
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The fourth point in rejection of the amendment is that community health councils are notstrategicdecision-taking bodies.
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We must all realise that when we discuss airport policy we are not simply discussing some grand design or some remotestrategicdecision.
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The programme, called manufacturing intelligence, is targeted atstrategicdecisionmakers.
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That would have enabled a strategic approach to allow smaller unitary authorities to be created without denying astrategicdecision-taking capacity.
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It will deal with many trusts and will take an interest particularly in the health authority'sstrategicdecision-making process.
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