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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deliberation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
careful
▪ Time and the most careful deliberation of the issues raised are available in the House of Lords.
▪ One argument is that two legislative houses ensure more careful deliberation on issues and laws.
▪ They close out the opportunity for careful deliberation and considered discussion by experts and experienced legislators.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Barring an emergency, the jurors will not be sequestered until they begin deliberations.
▪ The jury could begin deliberations as early as Thursday.
▪ The jury will then receive jury instructions and begin deliberations.
▪ When all the applicants had been interviewed, the committee began its deliberations.
▪ Jurors will likely begin deliberations Tuesday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The council concluded its deliberations on Monday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Barring an emergency, the jurors will not be sequestered until they begin deliberations.
▪ Consider a consumer who is currently active in the information search and deliberation process for a new automobile.
▪ Council deliberations on the budget are slated for June 25, 26, 27 and 30.
▪ However, it is a very important issue whose educational implications require considerable deliberation.
▪ Its deliberations were published in two volumes by the University of Chicago Press, and subsequently reprinted several times.
▪ One argument is that two legislative houses ensure more careful deliberation on issues and laws.
▪ There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control.
▪ They are still in the process of their deliberation on that aspect.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deliberation

Deliberation \De*lib`er*a"tion\, n. [L. deliberatio: cf. F. d['e]lib['e]ration.]

  1. The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.

    Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation.
    --W. Montagu.

  2. Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deliberation

late 14c., Old French deliberation, from Latin deliberationem (nominative deliberatio), noun of action from past participle stem of deliberare "weigh, consider well," from de- "entirely" (see de-) + -liberare, altered (perhaps by influence of liberare "liberate") from librare "to balance, weigh," from libra "scale."

Wiktionary
deliberation

n. 1 The act of deliberate, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. 2 Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council.

WordNet
deliberation
  1. n. (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question; "the deliberations of the jury"

  2. careful consideration; "a little deliberation would have deterred them" [syn: weighing, advisement]

  3. planning something carefully and intentionally; "it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting" [syn: calculation]

  4. a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn: slowness, deliberateness, unhurriedness]

  5. the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision; "he was a man of judicial deliberation" [syn: deliberateness]

Wikipedia
Deliberation

Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing options, usually prior to voting. Deliberation emphasizes the use of logic and reason as opposed to power-struggle, creativity, or dialog. Group decisions are generally made after deliberation through a vote or consensus of those involved.

In legal settings a jury famously uses deliberation because it is given specific options, like guilty or not guilty, along with information and arguments to evaluate. In " deliberative democracy", the aim is for both elected officials and the general public to use deliberation rather than power-struggle as the basis for their vote.

Usage examples of "deliberation".

This speech was made quietly and with all the customary Winslow deliberation and apparent calm, but there was one little slip in it and that slip Babbitt was quick to notice.

The lank black hair and deep grey eyes, the haggard expression and nervous manner, the fitful yet keen interest of his visitor were a novel change from the phlegmatic deliberations of the ordinary scientific worker with whom the Bacteriologist chiefly associated.

Then Bigfoot appeared in the picture, moving with deliberation through the light gravity, throwing himself up and into the airlock.

Prince Rupert the duke of Ormond, Sectary Trevor, and Lord Keeper Bridgeman, men in whose honor the nation had great confidence, were never called to any deliberations.

With the covetous deliberation of the winning gambler, Le Chiffre was tapping a light tattoo on the table with his right hand.

When the mutiny bill fell under deliberation, the earl of Egmont proposed a new clause for empowering and requiring regimental courts-martial to examine witnesses upon oath in all their trials.

She made no sound, although the old house creaked and sighed all around her and the tick took of the great Friesian clock in the hall dripped with soft deliberation into the silence.

It is very difficult to backtrack a chain of gates, if it was constructed with proper random deliberation, even for the time-mobile.

As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.

We must provide for interregional and international deliberations and decision-making.

So, every day or so, my father and uncle would get out our copy of the Kitab and, only after deliberation and consultation and final agreement, they would inscribe upon it the symbols for mountains and rivers and towns and deserts and other such landmarks.

The King after deliberation granted this last point, and from that time the incursions of the Mamelucos ceased in Paraguay and generally throughout the mission territory.

He was so casual about it all that no one, except perhaps Hergus who stood beyond them several paces looking back, could have guessed he had maneuvered himself so with deliberation.

CHAPTER XXI THE INNOCENT BLOOD After I had been taken away it seems that the court summoned Hernan Pereira and Henri Marais to accompany them to a lonely spot at a distance, where they thought that their deliberations would not be overheard.

He reached up to his uncovered chest, and with a terrible deliberation, he pricked his finger on one of his own spikes, testing its point.