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Definition of Reconsider

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

2. Verb. Consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it.

Definition of Reconsider

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

Definition of Reconsider

1. Verb. To consider a matter thought already to have been decided. ¹

2. Verb. In parliamentary procedure, a motion to bring back for further debate and a revote a motion that has already been passed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reconsider

1. consider [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: consider

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reconsider

reconoiter reconquer reconquered reconquering reconquers reconquest reconquests recons reconsecrate reconsecrated

reconsecrates reconsecrating reconsecration reconsecrations reconsenting reconsider (current term) reconsideration reconsiderations reconsidered reconsidering

reconsiders reconsign reconsigned reconsigning reconsigns reconsole reconsoled reconsoles reconsolidate reconsolidated

Literary usage of Reconsider

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"-n. , j » o reconsider na" mf°rmed the Senate that it had agreed to a Senate amendment to a House bill was held not to prevent a motion to reconsider the ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"Having shown Jurisdiction of the House of Representatives, operating under a rule like that of the state Senate, to entertain a motion to reconsider a vote ..."

3. Parliamentary Practice: An Introduction to Parliamentary Law by Henry Martyn Robert (1921)
"reconsider. A question that has been adopted, rejected, or postponed indefinitely cannot be considered again during the same session except by a motion to ..."

4. Commentaries on the Law of Public Corporations, Including Municipal by Charles Fisk Beach (1893)
"sideration may be moved,1 and it is not necessary to the validity of a resolution to reconsider that it should be moved by one who voted originally with the ..."

5. Robert's Rules of Order Revised for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry Martyn Robert (1915)
"reconsider.* This motion is peculiar in that the making of the motion has a higher rank than its consideration, and for a certain time prevents anything ..."

6. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"Mr. Wiswall moved to reconsider the vote by which said bill was passed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to reconsider the vote ..."

7. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives by United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson, United States (1904)
"Any Member of the majority may make the motion to reconsider, ... A Delegate may make any motion which a Member may make, except the motion to reconsider. ..."

8. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1868)
"... as follows: Mr. Creamer moved to reconsider the vote just taken, and that that motion be laid upon the table. FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE. FOR THE NEGATIVE. ..."

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