What's the difference between afterthought and rethink?
Afterthought
Definition:
(n.) Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NGOs permitted – often as an afterthought – to join them intelligibly represent neither civil society nor electorates.
(2) Because the Trail Blazers didn't make many major moves during the offseason, they started the season as an afterthought in the incredibly competitive Western Conference and their early success provoked more skepticism than accolades.
(3) It seems that even if it were to be an afterthought, any major theoretical work should be committed to certain positions at the four higher levels so that it becomes obvious for the kind of theory that gets developed.
(4) He added as seeming afterthought that Mr Nixon had called the meeting to discuss with him the decision to release the damaging tapes which prove that he ordered the cover-up.
(5) Here, international football is an afterthought to the global proselytising of the Premier League.
(6) Caleb Porter convinced what few remaining doubters he had with a masterfully managed series against Seattle, that even turned the now-familiar doomed Sounders charge in the second leg into an afterthought to Portland's emphatic first half.
(7) Aboriginal issues have been mismanaged to the point that it’s seen as an afterthought in policy,” he said.
(8) Like With the Beatles, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is an authentically brilliant album in an age when pop albums were usually an afterthought: Big Girls Don't Cry and 12 Others, as the title of a Four Seasons album released that year put it, with an admirably honest shrug of indifference.
(9) The majority of the citizens of the United Kingdom – the people of England – have been treated as an irrelevance, a nuisance or an afterthought.
(10) The trouble with this outfit is that the messages are mixed: was he trying to look smart but didn't have time to pull himself together and tuck his shirt in, or was he aiming for casual and put a suit jacket on as an afterthought?
(11) In such circumstances the 2015 general election will feel like an afterthought as numbed English politicians, stripped of authority, stumble to explain the revolution of 2014.
(12) When it so often feels that women are an afterthought in policymaking, to suggest children should come first might appear to be wilful obstructionism (or just daft).
(13) Production of magnetic tapes as a by-product of the publication process, and their use for retrospective searching or for SDI services, was a much later development, almost an afterthought.
(14) Web apps are an afterthought at best, as demonstrated by data from Flurry published this week which showed that people spend more than 80% of their time on a smartphone using an app, rather than the web via a browser.
(15) He’s not the worst that I’ve seen anyway.” “I’m starting to like that doctor,” Three Day Beard adds as an afterthought.
(16) It’s about time that the Guardian and other media put the majority of the football world front and centre, instead of treating it as an afterthought when the FA Cup is on and otherwise ignoring it (almost) completely.
(17) Aging can no longer be considered an afterthought in biographies.
(18) He conflates the scourge of drugs with everything from lottery winners to Oxbridge graduates who haven't heard of Mr Micawber , and has a hilarious gift for the waspish afterthought, as in: "Teachers are no longer really teachers.
(19) We see this as a massive step forward; a wake-up call to the international community and to governments, that inclusion of people with disabilities is a principle, not an afterthought.” These global goals, if adopted, will represent a seismic shift in how the world tackles poverty Helen Morton, Save the Children Helen Morton, post-2015 lead for Save the Children, said: “These global goals, if adopted and then implemented, will represent a seismic shift in how the world tackles poverty.
(20) We doubted there would be half a dozen passengers getting off at Heathrow from each train, and they would need another train to get to a terminal.” Stokes concluded that “for the Tories, HS2 was really about Heathrow runways … as if the train was an afterthought.” When Adonis heard that Prideaux was advising Villiers, he was delighted.