consequence
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
consequence/ˈkɒnsɪkwəns/
▶noun
- 1 a result or effect.
- 2 [usu. with neg.] importance or relevance.
■ dated social distinction.
- 3 (consequences) [treated as sing.] a game in which a narrative is made up by the players in turn, each ignorant of what has already been contributed.
– phrases
in consequence as a result.
take (or bear) the consequences accept responsibility for negative results or effects.
in consequence as a result.
take (or bear) the consequences accept responsibility for negative results or effects.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. consequentia, from consequent-, consequi ‘follow closely’.
'consequence' also found in these Oxford entries:
attainder
- carry
- connote
- consecutive
- consequent
- corollary
- dust bowl
- effect
- entail
- entrain
- externality
- follow
- forfeit
- hence
- implication
- imply
- import
- incidental
- live
- logic
- mean
- necessary
- necessitate
- now
- occupational hazard
- original sin
- outcome
- out-turn
- pay
- percept
- ramification
- reap
- rebound
- recoil
- reductio ad absurdum
- result
- sequela
- should
- spillover
- stagnant
- subsequence
- thence
- thus
- undesired
- wake
- whence
- would
