consideration

Noun

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

   Synonyms: deliberation thought

2. Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
   • 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...

   Synonyms: factor motive reason

3. The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
   • 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!
4. A payment or other recompense for something done.
   • 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. - 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...
5. 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.
   • In consideration of the performance of B's obligations hereunder, A hereby grants to B's personal license.
6. Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
   • [...] 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...
   • Since his findings are without a foundation in data and a sound analysis thereof, they are nothing but wild and empty claims and do not deserve consideration as a contribution to linguistic and historical studies. -...