Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - thinking

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The general ideas or opinions of a person or group can be referred to as their thinking. There was undeniably a strong theoretical dimension to his thinking. N-UNCOUNT: with poss 2. Thinking is the activity of using your brain by considering a problem or possibility or creating an idea. This is a time of decisive action and quick thinking... N-UNCOUNT 3. If you describe someone as a thinking man or woman, you mean that they are intelligent and take an interest in important events and issues, and you approve of this. Thinking people on both sides will applaud this book... A newspaper called him ‘the thinking man’s Tory’. ADJ: ADJ n c darkgreen]approval 4. to my way of thinking: see way see also wishful thinking