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Consideration

noun

The process of giving careful thought to something.

Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision. Synonyms: circumstance, condition.

A discussion of a topic (as in a meeting).

Kind and considerate regard for others. Synonyms: considerateness, thoughtfulness. Antonyms: thoughtlessness, inconsideration.

A fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone. Synonym: retainer.

A considerate and thoughtful act. Synonym: thoughtfulness.

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"Consideration" Quotes from Famous Books

... of triumph at her husband, but forebore to say anything, in consideration of his depressed condition; then she rushed hurriedly upstairs to see the ...

— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton

... upstairs, where a good deal of drinking went on after hours. There had been cases of disorder, and the magistrate unfortunately remembered that a servant-girl, who had pledged her master's plate to obtain money to back a horse, had been arrested in the 'King's Head.' Taking these facts into consideration, it seemed to him that he could not do less than inflict a fine of L100. The men who were found in Latch's house he ...

— Esther Waters • George Moore

... But I ran into an officer's arms before I had gone a block. He had been looking for me all night, and told me I was his prisoner. I was to be taken before Senor Pierola. Meantime I was to be treated with every consideration, the officer paying for breakfast and cigars, and insisting on my drinking some ale which he had taken ...

— Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew • Robert McReynolds

... "'Under no consideration,' I said to him, 'must you stir from this post till I call you. The chances are even that the man, when he is pursued, will return to this window and try to save himself that way; for it is by that way he came in and made a way ready for his flight. ...

— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux

... molded and defined by the aid of memory images. Here, too, he set forth the idea, which he, so far as I know, was the first to formulate, that sleep is a state of disinterestedness, a theory which has since been adopted by several psychologists. In this address, also, was brought into consideration for the first time the idea that the self may go through different degrees of tension—a theory referred to in ...

— Dreams • Henri Bergson

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