deliberation
di li buh ray shuhn
- n (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question
the deliberations of the jury - n careful consideration
a little deliberation would have deterred them - n planning something carefully and intentionally
it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting - n a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- n the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision
he was a man of judicial deliberation
- The jury found Speck guilty after a mere 49 minutes of deliberation and he was sentenced to the electric chair.
- What's more, informed consent may be a tidy legal concept, but it's arguable that a patient facing death without a new heart or kidney is no more capable of cool deliberation than .
- In the conscious deliberation group, however, the order in which information was presented had no effect on which car students chose.