单词 | non-decision |
释义 | non-decisionn. rare before 20th cent. A failure to make a decision. Also: an ineffectual decision; a decision which fails to resolve a matter. ΚΠ 1826 R. Whately Elements Logic iii. 199 This non-decision is practically the very same thing as a decision in favour of the existing state of things. 1950 O. J. Matthis Jolles tr. K. von Clausewitz On War 345 If it takes place on the frontier, the non-decision is in itself a success for the defensive. 1960 G. Clive Romantic Enlightenment 33 Man must either resign himself to an inauthentic existence of nondecision..or ‘leap’ over and above the precepts of critical reason and empirical belief. 1996 Nation 7 Oct. 6 Federal Reserve sources, explaining in backgrounders their nondecisions of June and August, stressed the absence of actual inflation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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