decide against

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to choose not to do something after deliberation

   Prepositional verb · Inseparable

   decide against something / decide against doing something

   Usage: Against introduces the rejected option; use an ing form for a rejected action.

   We decided against buying the house after seeing the survey results.

   Sources and attribution

   OpenAI Codex authors; independent AI editorial review recorded in the corpus review archive. — Original project editorial material; cleared for The Missing Workbook

   • The Missing Workbook: original construction review

   We decided against buying the house after seeing the survey results.

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