consideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌsɪdəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: considerations
Etymology: From Middle English consideracioun, from Old French consideracion, from Latin cōnsīderātiō. By surface analysis, consider + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: After much consideration, I have decided to stay.
text: Consideration of environmental effects is needed when choosing material.
text: In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in David Copperfield:
synonyms: deliberation
thought
glosses: The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
examples: text: Speculations about the possible entire reconstruction of society give the intellectual fare much more to his taste than the more practical and short-run considerations of those who aim at a piecemeal improvement of the existing order.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 428:
synonyms: factor
motive
reason
glosses: Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
examples: text: You showed remarkable consideration in giving up your place for your friend.
text: Will you noisy children show some consideration and stop your infernal screaming? I'm trying to study!
glosses: The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
examples: text: Sure I'll move my car, but only for a consideration.
text: A Malay here is proving helpful — Syed Omar, who says he's descended from Mohammed — and he's going to take us around. For a consideration, of course, but what the hell!
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 616:
glosses: A payment or other recompense for something done.
examples: text: Consideration is an intention to create legal relations.
ref: 2007, Wikipedia:Contract:
text: In consideration of the performance of B's obligations hereunder, A hereby grants to B's personal license.
ref: 2008, A contract:
topics: law
glosses: A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
examples: text: [...] settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyed consideration.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 54”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: Since his findings are without a foundation in data and a sound analysis thereof, they are nothing but wild and empty claims and do not deserve consideration as a contribution to linguistic and historical studies.
ref: 1989 January 24, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 132:
glosses: Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
Synonyms: word: cogitation
word: contemplation
word: deliberation
word: mulling
word: musing
word: pondering
word: meditation
word: reflection
word: rethinking
word: reconsideration
word: rumination
word: thought
Derived terms: nonconsideration
offence taken into consideration
offence to be taken into consideration
preconsideration
subconsideration
take into consideration
valuable consideration
Related terms: word: consider
word: considerable
word: considerate
word: considerateness
word: considered
word: inconsideration
word: reconsideration
word: ponder