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weigh up
consider advantages and disadvantages
If you weigh up something, you think carefully about its advantages and disadvantages before deciding.
Hear it in real life
Are you going to move abroad?
I am still weighing up whether it would be right for my family.
I need to weigh up the costs and benefits before I accept the offer.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I need to weigh up about the costs and benefits.
Say: I need to weigh up the costs and benefits.
“Weigh up” takes the things being considered directly, without “about.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
weigh up something; weigh up whether to do something
Your turn: say it out loud
I need to weigh up the costs and benefits before I accept the offer.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
weigh up
consider advantages and disadvantages
“I need to weigh up the costs and benefits before I accept the offer.”
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