consideration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English consideracioun, from Old French consideracion, from Latin cōnsīderātiō. By surface analysis, consider + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: considerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After much consideration, I have decided to stay.
Consideration of environmental effects is needed when choosing material.
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.
gloss: Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You showed remarkable consideration in giving up your place for your friend.
Will you noisy children show some consideration and stop your infernal screaming? I'm trying to study!
gloss: A payment or other recompense for something done.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sure I'll move my car, but only for a consideration.
The firm you dealt with will go to the courts, and the money, being directly traceable, will be held forfeit as no good consideration passed.
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!
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In consideration of the performance of B's obligations hereunder, A hereby grants to B's personal license.
gloss: Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [...] 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.
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.
Synonyms: cogitation
contemplation
deliberation
mulling
musing
pondering
meditation
reflection
rethinking
reconsideration
rumination
thought
Related words: consider
considerable
considerate
considerateness
considered
inconsideration
reconsideration
ponder
Derived words: nonconsideration
offence taken into consideration
offence to be taken into consideration
preconsideration
subconsideration
take into consideration
valuable consideration
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