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game-time decision

game-time decision noun: a decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.

Noun

game-time decision (plural game-time decisions)

  1. A decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.
    • A topographical presentation of these contours was used as a game-time decision aid by the UCLA 1972-73 Football Coaching Staff.1976, Engel Machol, Shaul P. Ladany, Management Science in Sports, p. 57
  2. By extension, any decision that is put off until a point where it can no longer be delayed.
    • I ended up staying out partying until 4 AM at which time I had an important game time decision: : go back to my apartment in Hoboken [New Jersey] to catch an hour of sleep or go straight to the office.2010, Chris Howard, Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business, page 36
    • But when the day finally comes that you spend a sleepless night with a crying baby who has a 103-degree fever, you'll still need to make a game-time decision. Who stays home from work?2009, Paula Peters, Working Mom's Survival Guide, page 116

Examples of game-time decision in a sentence

  • I made a game-time decision to ask Earle Caldwell's girlfriend a question nobody had ever asked her before: Did she believe that Caldwell and Blake were responsible for Bonny's murder?2007, Eric Dubin, The Star Chamber: How Celebrities Go Free and Their Lawyers Become, page 179:
  • Fortunately I made a game-time decision to take off my Hilfiger jeans and put on some khakis right before I left.2004, Phillip Allen, Play Money, page 17:

Forms of game-time decision

pluralgame-time decisions

Questions about game-time decision

What does game-time decision mean?
Game-time decision means a decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.
How do you use game-time decision in a sentence?
I made a game-time decision to ask Earle Caldwell's girlfriend a question nobody had ever asked her before: Did she believe that Caldwell and Blake were responsible for Bonny's murder?
What part of speech is game-time decision?
Game-time decision is a noun.
What is the plural of game-time decision?
The plural of game-time decision is game-time decisions.

Words near game-time decision in the dictionary

  1. game-overing
  2. game-overs
  3. game-play
  4. game-plays
  5. game-theoretical
  6. game-time decision
  7. game-time decisions
  8. game-winner
  9. game-winners
  10. gameability
  11. gameable

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