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Exactly when, and why, did we stop "making" decisions and start "taking" decisions? And just how does one take a decision? And from whom does one take it?
Personally, I intend to remain, defiantly, a MAKER of decisions!
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taking decisions
Where have you heard this? Am I living in a cave?
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It turns up in the newspapers all the time. It used to be confined to stories about government agencies, but it's starting to creep into other contexts. Oh, the horror!
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Many figureheads announce decisions without giving credit to the advisors from whom
critically important advice was taken. Such a decision is then, "taken".
I searched and found twenty sites that used the phrase "take decisions". As so often
happens, the purists are outnumbered and surrounded. Might makes right. Alas.
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I won't give up my decision-MAKING without a fight!
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I'm sitting right beside you in that cave, Faldage. I am unfamiliar with the "taking a decision" usage.
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I'm in the cave, too, but I can imagine appropriate applications, such as wwh has suggested. Someone on a panel makes a decision at least at proposal level, then the head of the panel takes that decision that the other panel maker made. Then we could get into forsaking a decision, shaking a decision, raking a decision, mudraking a decision, quaking a decision (now there's food for thought), hey, and waking a deicision!
Out of the cave with glee,
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I could be wrong (and if I am, I'm content in the belief that I'll soon be corrected) but from my experience, "take a decision" is the way every native speaker of English outside North America says it.
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and if I am, I'm content in the belief that I'll soon be corrected
Phew! What a relief.
I've never said "take a decision" and I am (I believe) a native speaker of English who is outside of North America! 
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..."take a decision" is the way every native speaker of English outside North America says it.
Not in this woods' neck. Very rarely it will be used in a political speech, but I've not heard it elsewhere.
Hi Hev who beat my by 10 minutes. Can't work out why I didn't see your post first but.
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