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What does construing mean?

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  1. present participle of construe
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In construing the provisions of this Charter, the presumption shall be in favor of a grant of power to the Trustee.
The public interest, for whose benefit it was enacted, would not be served by construing the words in a narrow or technical way.
Vivian Lynch felt Whitehead was wrong in construing this as an invasion-of-privacy case.
In reading the objectives, instructions and guidance the court is not construing a statute, or even subordinate legislation.
The same caution should be observed in construing the terms of an agreement.
That was said in a low, level voice and I suddenly realised how she might be construing this.

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