TALK OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does talk over mean? 

• TALK OVER (verb)
  The verb TALK OVER has 1 sense:

1. speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion

  Familiarity information: TALK OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TALK OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

discuss; hash out; talk over

Context example:

We discussed our household budget

Hypernyms (to "talk over" is one way to...):

talk about; talk of (discuss or mention)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "talk over"):

negociate; negotiate; talk terms (discuss the terms of an arrangement)

negociate (confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement)

powwow (hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting)

debate; deliberate (discuss the pros and cons of an issue)

consider; debate; deliberate; moot; turn over (think about carefully; weigh)

bandy; kick around (discuss lightly)

chair; lead; moderate (preside over)

advise; counsel; rede (give advice to)

confab; confabulate; confer; consult (have a conference in order to talk something over)

broach; initiate (bring up a topic for discussion)

bandy about (discuss casually)

hammer out; thrash out (discuss vehemently in order to reach a solution or an agreement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

There was hardly time to talk over the first letter from Enscombe before “Mr. Elton and his bride” was in every body's mouth, and Frank Churchill was forgotten.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is fortunate that you are old schoolfellows, as you must have much to talk over.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To talk over the dreadful business with Fanny, talk and lament, was all Lady Bertram's consolation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sometimes you may have to talk over touchy matters, where you and your partner are strongly wedded to your respective, opposite positions.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A fine sport for you, Sir Charles, with your pleasant twenty-mile drive into the country and your luncheon-basket and your wines, and so merrily back to London in the cool of the evening, with a well-fought battle to talk over.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next morning brought a farther trial of it, in a visit from their brother, who came with a most serious aspect to talk over the dreadful affair, and bring them news of his wife.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But nothing of that kind occurred, no visitors appeared to delay them, and they all three set off in good time for the pump-room, where the ordinary course of events and conversation took place; Mr. Allen, after drinking his glass of water, joined some gentlemen to talk over the politics of the day and compare the accounts of their newspapers; and the ladies walked about together, noticing every new face, and almost every new bonnet in the room.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Come! we'll talk over the voyage and the parting quietly half-an-hour or so, while the stars enter into their shining life up in heaven yonder: here is the chestnut tree: here is the bench at its old roots.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)