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Reconsideration

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re·con·sid·er  (rkn-sdr)
v. re·con·sid·ered, re·con·sid·er·ing, re·con·sid·ers
v.tr.
1. To consider again, especially with intent to alter or modify a previous decision.
2. To take up for reconsideration, as a matter previously acted on by a legislature.
v.intr.
To consider again, often with alteration or modification in mind.

recon·sider·ation n.
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Noun1.reconsideration - a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision
consideration - a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting); "consideration of the traffic problem took more than an hour"
2.reconsideration - thinking again about a choice previously made; "he had second thoughts about his purchase"
change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround, reversal - a decision to reverse an earlier decision


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The President of the United States is to have power to return a bill, which shall have passed the two branches of the legislature, for reconsideration; and the bill so returned is to become a law, if, upon that reconsideration, it be approved by two thirds of both houses.
In the first place, Rodney had written a very full account of his state of mind, which was illustrated by a sonnet, and he demanded a reconsideration of their position, which agitated Katharine more than she liked.
Angell in an article called "A Reconsideration of James's Theory of Emotion in the Light of Recent Criticisms.
 
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