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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reconsider
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reconsider a decision (=think about changing a decision you have made)
▪ He said he wasn't prepared to reconsider his decision.
reconsider your position (=think again about it and perhaps change it)
▪ The UN Secretary General urged the US to reconsider its position.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
▪ The forthcoming appeal against conviction of Lord Hardwicke will therefore provide an opportunity for the appellate courts to reconsider the position.
▪ They will ask the full Circuit Court bench to reconsider the ruling by the three-judge panel.
▪ Until now, however, the court has not reconsidered the workplace rules on affirmative action.
decision
▪ Will the Government now reconsider their decision not to introduce video recording of interrogation procedures?
▪ Some supporters said Starr should reconsider his decision because of its likely adverse impact on cooperating witnesses.
▪ Clearly, they hope that a combination of educational argument and political pressure will persuade ministers to reconsider their decision.
▪ I shall give you one day to reconsider your decision.
▪ The judge ordered the Minister to reconsider his decision.
▪ Shareholders subsequently asked the board to reconsider its decisions or step down.
▪ The Home Secretary should reconsider his decision.
government
▪ Will the Government now reconsider their decision not to introduce video recording of interrogation procedures?
▪ I hope the government will reconsider legislation and that the Law Society will support the statutory recognition of advance directives.
▪ Given the current job losses in the country, will the Government reconsider their appalling position?
▪ Langbaurgh has made several all-party attempts to get the Government to reconsider its spending limits.
▪ That gives the government much time to reconsider.
issue
▪ In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person.
▪ We shall need to reconsider this kind of issue again later.
▪ Obviously it was a time to reconsider the issue of widening both sets of locks.
▪ The motion called on the chamber to reconsider the issue in a few years' time.
policy
▪ She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies.
▪ Is it not time for him to reconsider his whole security policy?
position
▪ Last night, a local official, John Kydd, said the union would have to reconsider its position fairly swiftly.
▪ In view of the threat of expulsions contained in these circulars, Labour supporters of Unity had to reconsider their position.
▪ The forthcoming appeal against conviction of Lord Hardwicke will therefore provide an opportunity for the appellate courts to reconsider the position.
▪ Given the current job losses in the country, will the Government reconsider their appalling position?
▪ If the hon. Gentleman really believes that he has outlined a proper approach, I ask him to reconsider his position.
▪ I shall be happy to reconsider the position in Manchester and Eccles, although I know that it is being carefully considered.
▪ If such a situation arises a break to reconsider positions is valuable.
question
▪ Now reconsider the question you were answering.
▪ It is time to consider or reconsider certain fundamental questions about awareness.
▪ The court rightly sent the case back to a different judge to reconsider the question of remedy.
time
▪ Keep going even though you need time to reconsider or reflect.
▪ It is time to consider or reconsider certain fundamental questions about awareness.
▪ Obviously it was a time to reconsider the issue of widening both sets of locks.
▪ Is it not time for him to reconsider his whole security policy?
▪ Once they bump up against the limits of Yalta-redefined, it might be time to reconsider.
▪ That gives the government much time to reconsider.
▪ This breaks the cohesion and may give individuals time to reconsider.
■ VERB
ask
▪ If the hon. Gentleman really believes that he has outlined a proper approach, I ask him to reconsider his position.
▪ He asked that it be reconsidered.
▪ He asked me to reconsider this.
▪ He said the department may ask the Legislature to reconsider whether the assessments are needed.
▪ Powell has enormous respect would be asking him to reconsider joining the ticket to dramatically increase Sen.
▪ Morales will be asked to reconsider his opinion by state Rep.
▪ Ranieri and Mortara asked Stone to reconsider his move over the weekend.
force
▪ It was then that complaints started flooding in and now the Corporation has been forced to reconsider its plans.
▪ Public outrage eventually forced the paper to reconsider, and the editors decided to run the strip on the religion page.
▪ Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider.
▪ Even in cases where teachers clearly disagreed with advisers' recommendations, they had at least been forced to reconsider their existing practices.
▪ They've been reluctant until now, but may be forced to reconsider.
want
▪ If this seems unreasonable to you, you may want to reconsider.
▪ You may want to reconsider that outlandish proposal.
▪ In the meantime, customers of both firms may want to reconsider whether their attachments are rewarding relationships or merely empty habits.
▪ If he wants me to reconsider the changes, I shall, of course, do so.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Please reconsider. We'd love it if you came with us.
▪ The governor can ask the board to reconsider parole decisions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I hope the policy will be reconsidered.
▪ It seems high time that Charles the Bald too was reconsidered.
▪ It was then that complaints started flooding in and now the Corporation has been forced to reconsider its plans.
▪ Obviously it was a time to reconsider the issue of widening both sets of locks.
▪ Public outrage eventually forced the paper to reconsider, and the editors decided to run the strip on the religion page.
▪ The possibility that a series of bad tests might cause the programme to be reconsidered no longer exists.
▪ We shall need to reconsider this kind of issue again later.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconsider

Reconsider \Re`con*sid"er\ (r?`k?n*s?d"?r), v. t.

  1. To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.

  2. (Parliamentary Practice) To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reconsider

1570s, from French reconsidérer and also from re- "back, again" + consider. Related: Reconsidered; reconsidering.

Wiktionary
reconsider

vb. 1 To consider a matter thought already to have been decided. 2 In parliamentary procedure, a motion to bring back for further debate and a revote a motion that has already been passed.

WordNet
reconsider

  1. v. consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing; "Won't you reconsider your decision?"

  2. consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, in legislation

Usage examples of "reconsider".

Colegrove come from a full Court, the tradition of stare decisis, that prior decisions be allowed to stand, might have prevailed, and the prior ruling would not have been reconsidered.

The Lords Acton and Messaline went to the palace to beg the King to reconsider, but they did not return.

Lincoln only three days away, was snapping at the lads, and Alessandro stayed behind after second exercise and asked me if I had reconsidered and would put him up on Pease Pudding in place of Tommy Hoylake.

If, in the interval between his first showing himself in my story and its publication in a separate volume, anything had occurred to make me question the justice or expediency of drawing and exhibiting such a portrait, I should have reconsidered it, with the view of retouching its sharper features.

Servas returned home, Scott called and asked her to reconsider, telling her that he had added tortellini to the menu.

The Werwolf had had the report already for five days, but his natural caution had caused him to wait and reconsider before taking direct action.

The general had sent his official staff car to pick up her mother soon after, and Binh Duc had snuck into their home the next day, threatening her mother that if he ever saw another American on Villard property, he would have to reconsider their neutral status.

He understood that we had promised their return, but if some of the dogs would prove to be hazardous to the very families that enlisted them, clearly we would be compelled to reconsider.

Before he could reconsider, Delacourt was off the feedbox and through the door, sliding it shut behind him.

And occasionally they were even successful in their efforts as one or two of those waiting in line dropped out, apparently to reconsider.

Metz could hint that Mariah has leprosy, schizophrenia, or this Munchausen by Proxy--anything, just so long as it makes Rothbottam sit back and reconsider.

It detects your use of harsh language in your outbox mail, sets off a warning, and asks you if you want to reconsider editing the message.

If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the same, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to that house it shall be sent to the Governor-General, who, in case he shall then not approve, shall transmit the same to the President of the United States.

When this brought no response, Sida appeared to reconsider that possibility.

The chief purpose held in view has been to reconsider those safe and sound herbal curative remedies and medicines which were formerly most in vogue as homely simples, whether to be taken or to be outwardly applied.