0 past simple and past participle of contemplate
1 to spend time considering a possible future action, or to consider one particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way:
We remark that expressing the index implies that smooth trade-offs of stocks, giving rise to shadow prices, must be contemplated by the proponents.
This was a question that had been contemplated in earlier times, but in the sixteenth century it took on a different cast.
However, in publicly funded health care systems at least, the initiation of a national screening program is unlikely to be contemplated without evidence of cost-effectiveness.
Federalism or regional autonomy, much less partition, can hardly be contemplated because the two main communities are widely scattered and interspersed throughout the country.
The list of potentially contrastive features which they document, incidentally, is considerably larger than the feature inventory standardly contemplated by phonologists.
The contemplated integration and its application are best described through the following example.
The idea of adding an act to the alternatives already contemplated may take a more subtle form.
First, the report notes that informed consent is crucial when predictive genetic screening is contemplated.
