0 (often of something bad) intentional or planned: --
1 to think or talk seriously and carefully about something: --
2 (of an action or a decision) intentional or planned, often with the result of being harmful to someone: --
3 to think or talk seriously and carefully about something: --
The untainted jurymen brought in a verdict of not guilty after deliberating for only a quarter of an hour.
After a 4-week trial, the jury deliberated for more than 3 days.
She deliberates on the reasons why the borderline concept could become so successful.
The brotherhoods did not play a ver y active role as three congresses deliberated on the act.
One should, therefore, be mindful of this paradox in deliberating on the reform options.
By deliberating and discussing people improve their negotiating and bargaining skills, and they can begin to understand and empathize with others' viewpoints.
In deliberating the value tradeoffs of politics, people may be of two minds even about central beliefs such as party identification.
They spend a weekend deliberating on-site and a much longer period between their initial recruitment and their arrival on-site deliberating more casually in anticipation.