Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Assembled or organized for deliberation or debate.
- adjective Characterized by or for use in deliberation or debate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to deliberation or meditation; consisting of or used in discussion; argumentative; reasoning: as, a deliberative judgment or opinion; territorial delegates have a deliberative voice in Congress (that is, a right to engage in debate, though not to vote).
- Characterized by deliberation; proceeding from or acting by deliberation, especially by formal discussion: as, deliberative thought; the legislature is a deliberative body.
- noun A discourse in which a question is discussed or weighed and examined.
- noun In rhetoric, the art of proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it; the art of persuasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
- noun A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
- adjective Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That
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discourse in which aquestion isdiscussed , orweighed andexamined . - noun A kind of
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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination
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Examples
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"The boards are not going to be advisory, they're going to be what I call deliberative," said McNiff in a wide-ranging interview with the Daily News last week, before he presented the plan to pastors and parochial school parents in the Bronx.
NYDN Rss Corinne Lestch 2011
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"The boards are not going to be advisory, they're going to be what I call deliberative," said McNiff in a wide-ranging interview with the Daily News last week, before he presented the plan to pastors and parochial school parents in the Bronx.
NYDN Rss Corinne Lestch 2011
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From the start of the session, Buckley has insisted on sticking to what she calls a deliberative process for rescuing state services from Gibbons 'budget knife.
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One other thing, aside from long and disjointed terms, that definitely makes the Senate so deliberative is its relatively small size.
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Note 48: Another of the progymnasmata exercises, the encomium offered "basic training" for epideictic rhetoric, although it was also useful in deliberative and forensic oratory.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Whosoever denies the beverage which predates even bread as a staple of humankind through some dark, grotesque, and terrifying manner of thinking is clearly incapable of a degree of cognition sufficient to even pour pee out of a boot with instructions written under the heel, let alone engage in deliberative self-government.
Is That Legal?: Virgil Goode: Keep Out Religious Minorities To Preserve American Values 2006
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This is crystallized in the fact that social democrats do not represent a policy but rather they come up with something they call deliberative politics which has parallels in postmodernist relativism.
CounterPunch 2009
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Rather, quality refers to a deliberative process: defining the problem; measuring costs, benefits and risks; weighing alternatives, making trade-offs, avoiding duplication; and giving the public opportunity to comment.
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Terrorist acts such as suicide bombings are not typically carried out in an emotional frenzy; they are the consequences of deeply held belief systems and long-term deliberative planning.
First Person Plural 2008
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Terrorist acts such as suicide bombings are not typically carried out in an emotional frenzy; they are the consequences of deeply held belief systems and long-term deliberative planning.
First Person Plural 2008
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