The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word DELIBERATE
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More clues leading to the result DELIBERATE
- Think shop needs rebuke
- Think it out — and return to captivity, as it were?
- Remove freedom, as it were, to take counsel
- Planned debate
- Angrily criticise after food shop is slow and cautious
- Food store getting carpet measured
- Consider jail, might you say?
- Cautious store receiving censure
- Reverse move to freedom being planned?
- Intended to reflect
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The straight part
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What does DELIBERATE mean?
DELIBERATE verb- To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.
- To consider the reasons for and against anything; to reflect.
- Done on purpose; intentional.
- Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining.
- Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
- Not hasty or sudden; slow.