decisive move

collocation in English

meaningsofdecisiveandmove

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decisive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/us
/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/
able to make decisions quickly and confidently, or showing ...
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move
noun
uk
/muːv/us
/muːv/
an act ...
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(Definition ofdecisiveandmovefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Modernisation must also mean adecisivemoveaway from the old-fashioned confrontational methods of pay bargaining.
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The assessment that we propose is adecisivemoveaway from treating pensioners in the same way as those of working age.
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But we also now need adecisivemovetowards industrial democracy so that trade unionists are genuinely involved in all major industrial decisions.
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But he could not muster the courage to make thedecisivemoveon his own.
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There he found a sudden, bold,decisivemovecould reap large dividends.
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At the end of that season a deliberate anddecisivemovesaw the club decide not to pay players.
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It marked the final anddecisivemoveaway from a tax regime based on envy to a tax regime designed to promote enterprise and efficiency and thus to enhance prosperity.
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I am to be involved in this area of activity at a time when there is a real chance of making adecisivemoveforward towards better community care.
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He was one of two who managed to escape the battle, this was to be adecisivemovefor the future of the war.
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He was aware that this was the lastdecisivemoveof his career; there would be no more travelling to far-flung places.
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