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What does construing mean?

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  1. present participle of construe
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The public interest, for whose benefit it was enacted, would not be served by construing the words in a narrow or technical way.
Ryle warns against construing the fact that avowals are unassailable as indicating that there is special kind of knowledge in play.
In reading the objectives, instructions and guidance the court is not construing a statute, or even subordinate legislation.
Vivian Lynch felt Whitehead was wrong in construing this as an invasion-of-privacy case.
I was addressed by both parties on the principles of law to be adopted in construing patent specifications.
That was said in a low, level voice and I suddenly realised how she might be construing this.

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