deliberation
part of speech
noun (deliberation, deliberations)
meaning for a pupil
1) Deliberation is careful and long thinking or talking about something before deciding. tree →
2) Doing something with deliberation means slowly and carefully, on purpose. tree →
3) (law) The jury's deliberations are their discussions before the verdict. tree →
sense in the lessons
In law (jury deliberation), school councils, ethics dilemmas, stories.
examples
- After much deliberation, we chose the blue one. tree →
- The jury began its deliberations. tree →
- He placed the last brick with great deliberation. tree →
- The class council's deliberation took an hour. tree →
- She chose her words with deliberation. tree →
- The judges' deliberation over the cake contest was long. tree →
- This they did not like at all; so after much deliberation they decided to get married. tree →
note
Verb: deliberate (de-LIB-er-ate). Adjective deliberate (on purpose). Often plural in law.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «deliberation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.