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/rˌikənsˈɪdər/ Listen

verb

Reconsider v. t.

To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.

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

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Etymology of 'Reconsider'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reconsider" Quotes from Famous Books

... posts to be taken, entrusting to his brother C. Botha the attack on Itala, and to Emmett and Grobler the attack on Prospect. The failure of each attack with considerable loss on September 26 made Botha reconsider his position. There was no more thought of another campaign on the Tugela, ...

— A Handbook of the Boer War • Gale and Polden, Limited

... in this way. We are not regular troops. We are banded together for the good of all, but we do not yet acknowledge the authority of a sister colony. We desire to be a commonwealth of our own here in the Grants and have already been disturbed enough by usurpers from outside. Reconsider this, I beg of you. For if you persevere the expedition must fail and that which might result in great good to our struggling brethren, will end in harm because ...

— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster

... constructive and that I am not a ready convert to any new theory, especially when it happens to be so unusual and fantastic as this one. However, as I cast my mind back over the events of the morning, and as I reconsider the fatuous conduct of my companions, I find it easy to believe that some poison of an exciting kind ...

— The Poison Belt • Arthur Conan Doyle

... for Monaco to reconsider its position. Should it maintain its present short-sighted and untenable neutrality what has it to gain from England, France, or Russia? Nothing that it has not already got. Monaco very naturally wants something more. Let us be frank. We of Germany speak very differently. It is not desirable to be ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 • Various

... uneasy, monsieur," she continued; "I have well calculated everything: and were it not so, it would now be too late to reconsider my ...

— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

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