dispositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɒzɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more dispositive
form: most dispositive
Etymology: From Middle French dispositif and its source, Latin dispositus. Compare Piedmontese dispositiv.
Senses: examples: text: We were unable to produce any dispositive evidence to support our case.
text: ...the acquittal of the respondent on the charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm is not dispositive of the question of whether he used an object "in causing... injury" so as to make that object a weapon.
ref: 2002, Louise Arbour (Supreme Court of Canada), “R. v. Lamy, 2002 SCC 25”, in CanLII:
text: The problem—or one of them, anyway—is that customers hate dynamic pricing almost as much as they hate normal price increases. […] But as it stands, dynamic pricing is largely regarded as legal, as long as sellers don't use protected characteristics such as race or gender to determine what buyers will pay. The algorithmic nature of dynamic pricing also gives sellers plausible deniability; who's to say which data points were dispositive? The main risk for retailers is one of perception.
ref: 2025 January 24, Amanda Mull, “Prices will vary: Dynamic pricing will go far beyond airfares and hotels, to many customers' dismay”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, page 21:
text: Controversies about his past loutishness should not be dispositive when deciding whether he should be confirmed. There are ample other reasons to reject his nomination.
ref: 2025 January 24, George F. Will, “There are ample reasons, not about his personal life, for rejecting Hegseth. Opinion”, in Washington Post:
coordinate_terms: determinative#Adjective
glosses: Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or settling a matter).
examples: text: The second salient feature of the new Labour Code was an increase in the proportion of dispositive provisions at the expense of cogent provisions which, as the subsequent legal development showed, was not quite adequate.
ref: 2006, prof. JUDr. Helena Barancová, DrSc., Termination of Employment Relationship: Legal Situation in the Slovak Republic, Brussels: European Commission – Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, pages 1–2:
text: The VCLT is also applicable to treaties that are the constituent instrument of an international organisation and to treaties that have been adopted within an international organisation (Art 5 VCLT). However, in this (as well as other respect(s)), the VCLT is of a dispositive nature. The rules that apply in the first place are the rules of the international organisation itself as established under its constituent instrument and internal law. Thus, when a constituent treaty of an international organisation does not contain any provisions concerning the termination of membersip, the rules of the VCLT become relevant (Art. 56 VCLT).
ref: 2019, Jan Wouters, Cedric Ryngaert, Tom Ruys, Geert De Baere, International Law. A European perspective, Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart, →ISBN, page 62:
antonyms: cogent
qualifier: Euro-English or non-native speakers' English
glosses: Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties, as in ius dispositivum.
glosses: By natural disposition, having such an inclination.
Derived terms: dispositively
nondispositive