determining

Adjective

determining (comparative more determining, superlative most determining)

1. Determinative; causal.
   • This is suggestive that financial clout is a more determining factor in trade policy outcomes than voting power.2009, Georges De Menil, Richard Portes, Hans-Werner Sinn, Economic Policy 53, page 103
   • The discourse of the community economy thus questions the practice of singling out certain activities as necessarily or invariably more important, more independent, more determining of economic “health” and distinguishing them from those that are more expendable, dependent, and less determining or...2012, Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, page 258