English-Portuguese translations for weigh up

• pesar
  Como Sociais-democratas, são estas as coisas que temos de pesar.As Social Democrats, these are the things we have to weigh up.
  Compete ao Parlamento pesar cuidadosamente as suas consequências para diferentes indústrias e sectores da UE. It is our job in Parliament to weigh up carefully the impact on different industries and sectors within the EU.
  Todo o projecto de legislação deveria ter a preocupação de não regulamentar todos os pormenores, mas de pesar cuidadosamente onde começa a competência reguladora dos Estados-Membros. Every piece of draft legislation should take care not to regulate every detail, but to weigh up carefully where the Member States' regulative competence begins.

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