thinking

thinking
think|ing1 [ˈθıŋkıŋ] n [U]
1.) your opinion or ideas about something, or your attitude towards it
▪ The Administration's thinking changed as the war progressed.
▪ Well, to my way of thinking (=in my opinion) , they should have done that years ago.
▪ He laughed and accused me of wishful thinking (=falsely believing that something will happen just because I want it to) .
▪ the rich countries' current thinking on aid
thinking behind
▪ the thinking behind the company's new public relations campaign
2.) when you think about something
▪ If it weren't for Jeff's quick thinking , Tillie could have been badly hurt.
▪ I really needed to do some thinking .
clear/critical/analytical etc thinking
(=a particular way of thinking about things)
3.) put on your thinking cap informal
to try to think seriously about a problem in order to solve it
thinking 2
thinking2 adj [only before noun]
1.) a thinking person is intelligent and tries to think carefully about important subjects
2.) the thinking man's/woman's etc sth
used to say that someone or something is liked by intelligent people
▪ the thinking man's pop band

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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