consideration
noun/kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From Middle English consideracioun, from Old French consideracion, from Latin cōnsīderātiō. By surface analysis, consider + -ation.
1
The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- After much consideration, I have decided to stay.
- Consideration of environmental effects is needed when choosing material.
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- 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.1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in David Copperfield:
2
Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- 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.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:
3
The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
- 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!
4
A payment or other recompense for something done.
- 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.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
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- 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!1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 616:
5
Law 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.
- In consideration of the performance of B's obligations hereunder, A hereby grants to B's personal license.
6
Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
- [...] 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.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 54”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- 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.1989 January 23, 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:
- Synonyms
- cogitation, contemplation, deliberation, mulling, musing, pondering, meditation, reflection, rethinking, reconsideration, rumination, thought
- Derived terms
- nonconsideration, offence taken into consideration, offence to be taken into consideration, preconsideration, subconsideration, take into consideration, valuable consideration
- Related terms
- consider, considerable, considerate, considerateness, considered, inconsideration, reconsideration, ponder