Consideration

/kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition)..

Definitions by Sense

1. The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
2. Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
3. The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
4. A payment or other recompense for something done.
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.
6. Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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!

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.

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