advisement

noun — 2 senses

advisement

noun

Etymology From Middle English advisement, avisement, from Old French advisement, avisement, from adviser, aviser + -ment.

1

US, Usually Consideration or deliberation.

  • He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.
2

Archaic, Usually Advice, counsel.

  • Her wiſely comforted all, that ſhe might, / With goodly counſell and aduiſement right; […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 141:
Derived terms
take under advisement

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.