Word family noun consultation consultancy consultant consulting adjective consultative consulting verb consult
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconsultingcon‧sult‧ing1 /kənˈsʌltɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] BFthe service of providing advice to companiesExamples from the Corpus
consulting• By 1995 he wants the company to earn 20 percent of its revenues from services such as consulting, software and management.• Even management consultants have found a role in environmental consulting.consultingconsulting2 adjective [only before noun] BFproviding advice to companies a major international consulting firmExamples from the Corpus
consulting• At Kidd's arrival Clive and Stokes concentrated solely on executive search, but it has since undertaken organisational consulting assignments.• John: In 1985, John had to give up his career as a consulting engineer because he was desperately ill.• Grove Projects will also act as consulting engineer.• Beth works at a consulting firm in Stamford, Connecticut.• He succeeds Larry Brook, who continues working with the Foundation on a part-time basis in conjunction with establishing his own consulting firm.• These are primarily to help buy, extend or renovate a surgery or consulting rooms. 