Price vs Consideration - What's the difference?
price | consideration |
The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
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, title= The cost of an action or deed.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
The thought process of considering, of taking everything into account.
Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
The tendency to consider others.
A payment or other recompense for something done.
(legal) 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.
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Importance, claim to notice, regard.
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As a phrase price
is (label) protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation a common treatment method for sprained joints.As a noun consideration is
consideration (the process of considering).price
English
Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs
External links
* * 1000 English basic wordsconsideration
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''After much consideration, I have decided to stay.
- ''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!
- ''Sure I'll move my car, but only for a consideration .
- [...] 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 .