Consideration Meaning
/kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
nounSomething considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
Sentence Examples
You had better take into consideration that you are no longer young.
I will forgive him out of consideration.
An employer is legally bound to give due consideration to the request.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He showed great ____ by holding the door for the elderly woman.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
After careful and long ____, the complex committee finally chose a worthy winner for the award.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English consideracioun, from Old French consideracion, from Latin cōnsīderātiō. By surface analysis, consider + -ation.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
"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:
"[...] 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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He showed great ____ by holding the door for the elderly woman.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
After careful and long ____, the complex committee finally chose a worthy winner for the award.