past consideration
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An act done before a promise is made, which generally cannot support that promise.
His earlier help was past consideration, so the later promise to pay him was unenforceable.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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