consideration

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  Considerate Conduct of Scipio Africanus
• WordNet 3.6
  • n consideration a considerate and thoughtful act
  • n consideration kind and considerate regard for others "he showed no consideration for her feelings"
  • n consideration the process of giving careful thought to something
  • n consideration information that should be kept in mind when making a decision "another consideration is the time it would take"
  • n consideration a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting) "consideration of the traffic problem took more than an hour"
  • n consideration a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
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• • Consideration Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence. "The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration .""The consideration with which he was treated."
  • Consideration Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence. "Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin."
  • Consideration That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason. "He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations , to search an asylum.""Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment."
  • Consideration The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. "Let us think with consideration .""Consideration , like an angel, came."
  • Consideration (Law) The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent.
  • Consideration The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.
  • Consideration Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice. "Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church."
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• • n consideration The act of considering; mental view; regard; notice: as, to take into consideration the probable consequences.
  • n consideration Careful reflection; serious deliberation.
  • n consideration Contemplation; observation; heed: with of: as, he was acquitted in consideration of his youth.
  • n consideration Thoughtful, sympathetic, appreciative, or deserved regard or respect: with for before the subject considered: as, consideration for the feelings of others is the mark of a gentleman.
  • n consideration Some degree of importance; claim to notice or regard; place in or hold upon regard, attention, or thought.
  • n consideration That which is or should be considered; a subject of reflection or deliberation; a matter of import or consequence; something taken or to be taken into account: as, the public good should be the controlling consideration with a statesman.
  • n consideration Recompense for trouble, service rendered, or the like; remuneration.
  • n consideration In law, that which a contracting party accepts as an equivalent for a service rendered; the sum or thing given, or service rendered, in exchange for something else, or the sum, thing,or service received in exchange for something; the price of a promise or a transfer of property. This may consist either in a benefit to the promisor or a burden assumed by the promisee, or both. A contract must be mutual, and one side is the consideration of the other. A promise made without any such counter compensation or equivalent may be binding in morals, but the law does not recognize it as a contract nor compel its performance. It is not essential that a consideration be an equivalent in a commercial sense, nor even that it have any commercial value. Even exoneration from a moral obligation which could not be enforced at law may be a consideration for an express promise to perform it: thus, where a debtor, after a legal discharge in bankruptcy or by the statute of limitations, without having paid any thing, recognizes his moral obligation to pay, and makes an express promise to do so, the moral obligation is deemed a sufficient consideration to make the promise a legal contract.
  • n consideration Synonyms and Attention, reflection.
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• • Consideration deliberation: importance: motive or reason: compensation, reward: the reason or basis of a compact:
  • Consideration (law) the thing given or done or abstained from by agreement with another, and in view of that other giving, doing, or abstaining from something
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  “In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.”
• Luis Albert Machado

  

  “The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.”
• Confucius

  

  “Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.”
• William Gilmore Simms

  

  “The only true source of politeness is consideration.”
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

  

  “Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”
• Mary Mccarthy

  

  “In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”

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