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backroom decision

When group decisions are being made, sometimes the issue is effectively determined by a subset of the group without the input (or sometimes, even without the knowledge) of the rest of the group, often done in secrecy, or a "backroom"

Backroom decisions often aren't communicated openly by those who made the decision to those who are being affected, leaving the affected to find out at the last minute, sometimes through a third party.

In best case scenerios, backroom decisions usually benefit most those few making the decision for the group, and in worst case, backroom decisions are meant to directly affect (usually in a negative manner) those not allowed input into the decision. Often times backroom decisions are immoral, unethical, and sometimes procedurely, or statutely, illegal.
Brian: Did you see how Webelos II wasn't allowed to participate in the Pack Pinewood Derby this year?

Joe: Yeah, total backroom decision.

Brian: Agree. They knew it doing it was wrong, it wasn't communicated openly to us. I found out last night at 8:30pm by the guy checking in cars.

Joe: I didn't find out until this morning. You would expect this kind of behavior from a bunch of 10 year olds, not grown men. Don't worry Karma has a way of working these things out.
by inntheknow June 25, 2016
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Despision

The act or feeling of despising something.
"I have great despision for my teacher."
by ellovee May 30, 2009
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make an executive decision

A phrase used to excuse oneself from a group of friends to take a shit inorder to think over a tough situation.
-"Smells like its time to make an executive decision."
-"Good idea boss!"
by Ralph Wenzel February 3, 2008
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Decision December

The point in December when you decide whether or not you're keeping your facial hair from No Shave November.
Jeff hadn't shaved for all of November and had grown a nice beard, so he spent some time in Decision december and decided whether or not he'd keep is new facial companion
by UAGDWOOF November 23, 2010
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devision

The Act of devising, creating and planning with clear thought and in an enjoyable manner.
Unity told me "Yeah, Dru's heavily into devision right now. I asked him WHAT IS DEPLAN? HAVE YOU COME UP WITH DE VISION YET?!

"It's not spelt like that, Unity- it's DEViSiON," he replied, smartly.
by the Wizard, Oz January 19, 2008
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bad decision

A "bad decision" is when one is under the influence of alcohol and does something really fucking stupid.
Karen says she made many "bad decisions" while under the influence.
by smart ass rose March 3, 2010
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decision stream

Decision stream - a statistic-based supervised learning technique that generates a deep directed acyclic graph of decision rules to solve classification and regression tasks
By increasing the number of samples in each node and reducing the tree width, the Decision stream preserves statistically representative data and allows extremely deep graph architecture that can consist of hundreds of levels.
by Dr. James Fan May 7, 2019
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