consider

Definition

Examples

The committee will consider all applications before announcing the winner.

Word Family

Synonyms

• contemplatelook at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
• deliberatethink about carefully; weigh
• examineconsider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

Collocations

• Easy consider buying a new bicycle this weekend
  to consider buying a new bicycle this weekend, meaning to deem to be
• Medium carefully consider the revised project partnership proposal
  describing carefully consider the revised project partnership proposal (taking care or paying attention)
• Hard consider all documented mitigating circumstances prior to sentencing
  to consider all documented mitigating circumstances prior to sentencing, meaning to deem to be
• Very Hard all things considered it represents the lesser of two evils
  describing all things considered it represents the lesser of two evils (quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class)