Definition of "deliberative" []

• Assembled or organized for deliberation or debate: a deliberative legislature. (adjective)
• Characterized by or for use in deliberation or debate. (adjective)

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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."
• "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."
• "One other thing, aside from long and disjointed terms, that definitely makes the Senate so deliberative is its relatively small size."