Consideration

1. n. 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.
2. n. The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.
3. n. Attentive respect; appreciative regard; — used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence.
4. n. Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice.
5. n. Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence.
6. n. The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.
7. n. That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.