Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
decision-maker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Given that macro-decisions inherently and inevitably condition micro-decisions, the principal focus of attention must be on the political decision-maker.
▪ How many of the ramifications of a particular decision ought to be explicitly taken into account by the decision-maker?
▪ If information could flow directly into action there would be no need for a human decision-maker.
▪ Should the nature of the decision-maker be conclusive as to the scope of review that we should adopt?
▪ Since these are questions of fact a decision-maker would have to make a full contextual analysis before reaching a decision.
▪ The appropriate policies that might influence a decision-maker are broadly similar in the two contexts.
Usage examples of "decision-maker".
Sixty years ago, Margaret Mead told us, based on what is done in other cultures, that it wasn't innate for men to be decision-makers and breadwinners or for women to be subservient and raise children.
By the time the decision-makers in the IAA realized that an alien artifact had been discovered, they were faced with a fait accompli: The artifact, and the asteroid in which it resided, were the personal property of the richest man in the solar system.
This radically altered fact of life must be internalized by decision-makers in industry, government and elsewhere.
It was some six feet higher than the floor of the command center operations, giving Komulakov and other planners or decision-makers a panoramic view of what was going on.