English-German translations for weigh up

• abwägen
  Wir müssen das Übel abwägen und notwendige Initiativen ergreifen. We need to weigh up the evil and take important initiatives.
  Zweitens müssen wir genau abwägen, welches Risiko ein Moratorium bedeuten würde. Secondly, we must carefully weigh up the risks of a moratorium.
  Man muss auch das abwägen - der Berichterstatter hat es genannt -, was das Parlament ausgehandelt hat. We also need to weigh up, as the rapporteur has said, what Parliament has negotiated.
• abwiegen

Definition of weigh up

• To assess a person or situation

Examples

• She looked at him carefully, trying to weigh him up. Was he really telling the truth?

Related words

• weigh upon
• weighing up
• super lightweight