Consideration
noun
A fact, condition, or context that you think about when making a decision.
I took your advice into consideration and decided to apply for the job.
Often appears as...
- take into consideration
- give consideration to
noun
Kindness towards other people, and a willingness to think about their needs.
Thank you for your consideration and understanding.
Often appears as...
- show consideration
- have consideration for
noun
Something that you think about when you make a choice or decision.
Cost will be a major consideration when choosing a car.
Often appears as...
- primary consideration
- key consideration
noun
Something given or done as payment or recompense for a service or achievement.
He sold his shares in consideration of an agreed sum.
Often appears as...
- in consideration of
- for your consideration
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Technical
noun
A fact, condition, or context that you think about when making a decision.
I took your advice into consideration and decided to apply for the job.
Often appears as...
- take into consideration
- give consideration to
noun
Kindness towards other people, and a willingness to think about their needs.
Thank you for your consideration and understanding.
Often appears as...
- show consideration
- have consideration for
noun
Something that you think about when you make a choice or decision.
Cost will be a major consideration when choosing a car.
Often appears as...
- primary consideration
- key consideration
noun
Something given or done as payment or recompense for a service or achievement.
He sold his shares in consideration of an agreed sum.
Often appears as...
- in consideration of
- for your consideration
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Decision Factors
Consider all relevant elements that influence your choice before deciding.
Weather conditions were a major consideration for postponing the event.
Pro Tip 2/2Context Importance
Reflect the situation's specifics in your use of 'consideration' to show awareness.
Taking the company's financial health into consideration, layoffs were unavoidable.
Pro Tip 1/2Decision Factors
Consider all relevant elements that influence your choice before deciding.
Weather conditions were a major consideration for postponing the event.
Pro Tip 2/2Context Importance
Reflect the situation's specifics in your use of 'consideration' to show awareness.
Taking the company's financial health into consideration, layoffs were unavoidable.
Pro Tip 1/2Decision Factors
Consider all relevant elements that influence your choice before deciding.
Weather conditions were a major consideration for postponing the event.
Pro Tip 2/2Context Importance
Reflect the situation's specifics in your use of 'consideration' to show awareness.
Taking the company's financial health into consideration, layoffs were unavoidable.
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Jennifer My colleagues were actually, I think, delighted to have the opportunity to discuss this openly. It's interesting that as I talk to people, my scientific colleagues as well as others, there's a wide variety of viewpoints about this. So clearly it's a topic that needs careful consideration and discussion.
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you take other data into consideration so absolute figures like the military budget in a connected world kind of don't give you the whole picture they're not as true as they could be we need relative figures that are connected to other data so that we can see a fuller picture and then that can lead to us
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Inside the Burial...
because you don't know what's there and if you had several feet of water on top of it put it underneath the pyramid you have a special set of considerations none of which we knew entirely what they were so it was difficult to understand in advance what the right equipment was
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Fearsome Teeth of the...
that's worthy of consideration and I think the gelada is just such an animal now looking at the teeth of the gelada they just seem completely pointless for me I mean it's got canine teeth that would equal those of a lion so obviously they're not being used to munch down
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How do contraceptives...
Another important consideration in the choice of contraceptives are side effects, which almost exclusively affect women rather than men. Hormonal methods in particular can cause symptoms like headaches, nausea, and high blood pressure, but they vary from woman to woman.
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The agony of opioid...
even when it's not necessary in the case of opioids. And even when opioids are called for, they often prescribe much more than is needed. These sorts of considerations help to explain why America, despite accounting for only five percent of the global population,
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How do US Supreme Court...
Many other factors come up for consideration, as well, including experience, personal loyalties, ethnicity, and gender. The candidates are then thoroughly vetted down to their tax records and payments to domestic help. Once the president interviews the candidate
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Why should you read...
Through deep thought, Woolf's characters are shown to temporarily transcend their material reality, and in its careful consideration of the complexity of the mind, her work charts the importance of making our inner lives known to each other.
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Creating living...
but they may be like nothing we've ever seen before they're performing as well as a natural ecology but they're built from processes that we design so taking this into consideration environmental sensing computation and robotics become a new
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How cohousing can make...
lighting and acoustic materials to support eating together; in the careful visual location and visual access to kids' play areas around and inside the common house; in the consideration of scale
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How CRISPR lets us edit...
Jennifer My colleagues were actually, I think, delighted to have the opportunity to discuss this openly. It's interesting that as I talk to people, my scientific colleagues as well as others, there's a wide variety of viewpoints about this. So clearly it's a topic that needs careful consideration and discussion.
Video examples
The beauty of data...
you take other data into consideration so absolute figures like the military budget in a connected world kind of don't give you the whole picture they're not as true as they could be we need relative figures that are connected to other data so that we can see a fuller picture and then that can lead to us
Video examples
Inside the Burial...
because you don't know what's there and if you had several feet of water on top of it put it underneath the pyramid you have a special set of considerations none of which we knew entirely what they were so it was difficult to understand in advance what the right equipment was
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Fearsome Teeth of the...
that's worthy of consideration and I think the gelada is just such an animal now looking at the teeth of the gelada they just seem completely pointless for me I mean it's got canine teeth that would equal those of a lion so obviously they're not being used to munch down
Video examples
How do contraceptives...
Another important consideration in the choice of contraceptives are side effects, which almost exclusively affect women rather than men. Hormonal methods in particular can cause symptoms like headaches, nausea, and high blood pressure, but they vary from woman to woman.
Video examples
The agony of opioid...
even when it's not necessary in the case of opioids. And even when opioids are called for, they often prescribe much more than is needed. These sorts of considerations help to explain why America, despite accounting for only five percent of the global population,
Video examples
How do US Supreme Court...
Many other factors come up for consideration, as well, including experience, personal loyalties, ethnicity, and gender. The candidates are then thoroughly vetted down to their tax records and payments to domestic help. Once the president interviews the candidate
Video examples
Why should you read...
Through deep thought, Woolf's characters are shown to temporarily transcend their material reality, and in its careful consideration of the complexity of the mind, her work charts the importance of making our inner lives known to each other.
Video examples
Creating living...
but they may be like nothing we've ever seen before they're performing as well as a natural ecology but they're built from processes that we design so taking this into consideration environmental sensing computation and robotics become a new
Video examples
How cohousing can make...
lighting and acoustic materials to support eating together; in the careful visual location and visual access to kids' play areas around and inside the common house; in the consideration of scale
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Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
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Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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Eugene Fama
American Economist
Everybody wants the world to be a better place, and some think that government actions can bring that about. But they don't take into consideration that government actions can often do more harm than good.
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Giraldus Cambrensis
Welsh Clergyman
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Gerhard Herzberg
German Physicist
Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.
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Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.
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Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Self-respect knows no considerations.
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Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
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Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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Eugene Fama
American Economist
Everybody wants the world to be a better place, and some think that government actions can bring that about. But they don't take into consideration that government actions can often do more harm than good.
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Giraldus Cambrensis
Welsh Clergyman
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Gerhard Herzberg
German Physicist
Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.
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Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.
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Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Self-respect knows no considerations.
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