decisive action

noun

: an action or actions done quickly and with confidence

In emergency situations, one must be able to take decisive action.

Examples of decisive action in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Hidden Cost Of Chasing Approval When leaders prioritize external opinions over their vision, two critical aspects suffer: decisive action and innovation. —Dr. Adil Dalal, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025

Rather than leaving another note or having yet another conversation, the frustrated resident took decisive action. —Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025

The British Cabinet hoped quick, decisive action would force the North and South to make peace and reopen the cotton trade. —Zaakir Tameez june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025

The Trump administration's crackdown culminated in the president's decisive action Monday to deploy a battalion of hundreds of U.S. Marines to respond to anti-immigration enforcement riots, Fox News has learned. —Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2025

Rhymes for decisive action

• abstraction
• attraction
• compaction
• contraction
• detraction
• diffraction
• distraction
• exaction
• extraction
• impaction
• inaction
• infraction