deliberative
having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
having to do with policy; dealing with the wisdom and expediency of a proposal: a deliberative speech.
Origin of deliberative
1Other words from deliberative
- de·lib·er·a·tive·ly, adverb
- de·lib·er·a·tive·ness, noun
- un·de·lib·er·a·tive, adjective
- un·de·lib·er·a·tive·ly, adverb
- un·de·lib·er·a·tive·ness, noun
Words Nearby deliberative
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How to use deliberative in a sentence
Johnson defended his move, saying he was trying to “make this a more deliberative process.”
Hours-long reading of 628-page COVID relief bill delays Senate debate | Axios | March 5, 2021 | AxiosSuch deliberative democracy may start to bind up the wounds—pandemic and otherwise—of the intensely partisan 2020.
We'll Probably Never Eliminate COVID-19 from the U.S. It's Still Worth Trying | Gavin Yamey | February 25, 2021 | TimeWhile asserting that many unions are “thoughtful and deliberative in their actions,” Acevedo cautions that they now must “be careful not to defend the indefensible.”
‘A Fireable Offense.’ Law Enforcement Agencies Grapple With Police Officers’ Involvement in U.S. Capitol Riots | Josiah Bates | January 14, 2021 | TimeThere’s no debate and no deliberative, committee-driven process required.
Who Is My Member of Congress? How to Find Out What Your Elected Officials Have Been Up To. | by Cynthia Gordy Giwa | October 28, 2020 | ProPublicaThe founders envisioned a system of checks and balances, of pluralistic competition and deliberative government.
And, second, we already use sortition to select an important deliberative body, the trial jury.
Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives? | Michael Schulson | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is a deliberative conversation, and he tries to get as much meaning into as few words as possible.
The Stacks: The Eyes of Winter: Paul Newman at 70 | Peter Richmond | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“deliberative process” probably means, in this case, killing the legislation.
Ninety-four years of reasonably deliberative history was thus replicated in three fortnights of panic inside the Eccles Building.
Designed as the deliberative power, the Senate had become instead the negative power, the selfish power.
Reason and common sense demand that a great Church should have some sort of deliberative assembly.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonIn other respects the functions of the council seem to have been of a deliberative character.
His ancestral sceptre in his hand, he is going to hold a deliberative assembly of the unarmed host.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangI have slight respect or esteem for deliberative assemblies split up into factions and parties.
The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) | Charles James LeverIt is due to truth to say that the Convention did not possess all the desirable characteristics of a deliberative assembly.
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention | Lucius Eugene Chittenden
British Dictionary definitions for deliberative
/ (dɪˈlɪbərətɪv) /
involved in, organized for, or having the function of deliberating: a deliberative assembly
characterized by or resulting from deliberation: a deliberative conclusion
Derived forms of deliberative
- deliberatively, adverb
- deliberativeness, noun
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