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The practice of giving expert advice within a particular field
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consultancy
Word definitions for consultancy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A consultant or consulting firm.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE environmental ▪ This will provide a world class source of environmental consultancy and technical services. ▪ Levels of background radiation are frequently published in the Moscow press, and a number of environmental ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field; "a busines management consultancy"
Usage examples of consultancy.
Now in her middle thirties she was a qualified doctor with a consultancy at Breach Candy Hospital, who worked with the city's homeless, who had gone to Bhopal the moment the news broke of the invisible American cloud that ate people's eyes and lungs.
The sight of girls from advertising agencies and public relations consultancies hurrying to sandwich bars is one of the delights of being in the West End.
Something in one of her pockets twitched, then began to recite brightly: "We provide a wide range of business services, including metamagical consultancy, stock trading and derivatives analysis systems, and a full range of communications and disinformation tools for the discerning corporate space warrior.
The natural areas in which one could find them were bodyguard work, asset protection, industrial counter-espionage, and security consultancy.
Thereafter, drawing on records from Companies House, I invented a CV in a series of small companies and consultancies which all went bankrupt shortly after Huntley supposedly left, then fudged tax records in the DSS computer to match his career.
Regularly using my Huntley credit card built up a realistic spending pattern on the bills, and consultancy `payments' from East European Investment into my bank account ensured that it would appear realistic to inspection.
One was the son of a serving MI6 officer, one a Metropolitan Police SB (Special Branch) officer, another in the DIS, one a merchant banker and the last worked for a political consultancy in Oxford.
If, in the course of my explorations, I come upon another copy of Khunrath, or another handsome stuffed salamander, or a narwhal's horn (which I would be ashamed to display in my collection, though the Treasure of Vienna exhibits one as a unicorn's horn), with a brief and agreeable transaction I can earn more than you would pay me in ten years of consultancy.