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An expert who gives advice
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consultant
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an expert who gives advice; "an adviser helped students select their courses"; "the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala" [syn: adviser , advisor ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A consultant (from "to discuss") is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular area such as security ( electronic or physical ), management , education , accountancy , law , human resources , marketing (and public relations ), finance , engineering ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
consultant \consultant\ n. an expert who gives advice. Syn: adviser, advisor.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES management consultant PR agency/firm/consultant ▪ a large PR firm COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE financial ▪ Public relations consultants A good firm of financial public relations consultants should be engaged ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a person or party that is consulted. 2 a person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, or help in an area or specialty. Alternatively, a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, of persons going to oracles, from consult + -ant . Of physicians, from 1878; meaning "one qualified to give professional advice" is first attested 1893 in a Sherlock Holmes story. Related: Consultancy (1955).
Usage examples of consultant.
The antipoverty group lacks the 8,000 pounds a month to hire an LLM or other professional consultants, so Baker and his colleagues must themselves act as lobbyists on behalf of their low-income constituents.
He has been a consultant in forensic pathology to the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.
Like most surgeons Melinda had dealt with, Billingsgate had strong proprietary feelings toward his operation designs, but he was also experienced enough not to simply ignore the recommendations of a good consultant.
Frank said that the artistic consultant had left Bonita Vista suddenly and would not be coming back.
Even under the grey sky the largest paddy was an intense shade of green, and in the middle of it, Deccan Blendish could see the leader of the team of agricultural consultants whose arrival in the village had preceded his.
Weil, Ganz and Dieckmann, who acted as consultants to the French embassy.
Background checks Policy: A background check should be required for all new hires, contractors, consultants, temporary workers, or interns prior to an offer of employment or establishing of a contractual relationship.
Library to use colloquial Anglic, hiring Kanten, Tymbrimi, and others as consultants.
Bob Shrum, the legendarily well-compensated roly-poly media consultant whose defection from Edwards to Kerry in February was treated in the Washington political community with the cosmic significance of Bill Gates leaving Microsoft.
As a private consultant, she is limited by the medicolegal information presented to her, and the absence of pertinent findingsor the presence of incorrect findingsis intolerable.
The mycologist van Schoening had come from Moscow, a consultant brought in to study the fungoid vegetation.
Going straight, moving out of the shadows into the bright lights of the legal world, the legal nets, would be difficult: they, none of them, had the corporate connections to become the sort of consultant that would let them go on paying their bills, and none of the other jobs that were open to freelancers were particularly challenging, or particularly well-paid.
As an incentive, Leo, if he thought he could manage it, could stay on as a consultant for fifteen percent net over a nonrenewable three-year term.
The next day, when I went into Stretton Green for a meeting, Oban gave me a hug, which made me feel more like a favorite niece than a professional consultant.
The examination took a long time and in the end Sir Walter Tring, the orthopaedic consultant, joined them as he was on his way to theatre.