different between consideration vs set-off
consideration
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French consideracion, from Latin c?ns?der?ti?. Synchronically analyzable as consider +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?s?d???e???n/
- Hyphenation: con?sid?er?ation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
consideration (countable and uncountable, plural considerations)
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- Synonyms: deliberation, thought
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Synonyms: factor, motive, reason
- The tendency to consider others.
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- (law) 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.
- Importance, claim to notice, regard.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54
- [...] 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.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54
Related terms
Translations
Middle French
Noun
consideration f (plural considerations)
- Alternative form of consyderation
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set-off
English
Noun
set-off (plural set-offs)
- That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
- D. Jerrold
- I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman.
- D. Jerrold
- (dated) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.
- (law) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.
- (printing) An offset.
Usage notes
- In the legal sense, set-off differs from recoupment: the latter generally grows out of the same matter or contract with the plaintiff's claim, while the former grows out of distinct matter, and does not of itself deny the justice of the plaintiff's demand.
Translations
Anagrams
- offset
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