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See also: considération
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English consideracioun, from Old French consideracion, from Latin cōnsīderātiō. By surface analysis, consider + -ation.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
consideration (countable and uncountable, plural considerations)
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- Synonyms: deliberation, thought; see also Thesaurus:consideration
- After much consideration, I have decided to stay.
- Consideration of environmental effects is needed when choosing material.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in David Copperfield:
- 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.
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- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- The tendency to consider others.
- 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!
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- Sure I'll move my car, but only for a consideration.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 616:
- 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!
- (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.
- 2007, Wikipedia:Contract:
- Consideration is an intention to create legal relations.
- 2008, A contract:
- In consideration of the performance of B's obligations hereunder, A hereby grants to B's personal license.
- Importance, claim to notice, regard.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 54”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- [...] 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.
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Translations[edit]
process of considering
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something considered as a reason or ground for a decision
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tendency to consider others
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recompense for something done
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legal: something valuable given as recompense for a promise
importance, claim to notice, regard
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Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
consideration f (plural considerations)
- Alternative form of consyderation
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