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Consider purposeful shop reprimand (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

deliberate

'consider' is the definition.
('deliberate' can be a synonym of 'consider')

'purposeful shop reprimand' is the wordplay.
'purposeful shop' becomes 'deli' (deli is a kind of shop. I am not sure about the 'purposeful' bit.**).
'reprimand' becomes 'berate' ('berate' can be a synonym of 'reprimand').
'deli'+'berate'='DELIBERATE'

(Other definitions for deliberate that I've seen before include "Calculated - think carefully" , "Ponder" , "Purposeful" , "Meant" , "Well considered" .)

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