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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consultancy
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 consultancies run radiation monitoring services.
international
▪ Nigel Humphreys, before joining Tyzack, was engaged in international consultancy, advising governments.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Mark Christie, 30, got divorced 18 months ago before the recession forced his flourishing management consultancy business into sudden bankruptcy.
▪ The group's flagship consultancy business was again its biggest contributor, delivering revenue of £47.3m, up 20 per cent.
firm
▪ In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization.
management
▪ Mark Christie, 30, got divorced 18 months ago before the recession forced his flourishing management consultancy business into sudden bankruptcy.
▪ Several have human resources consultancies, while Eversheds recently set up a risk management consultancy.
▪ The following problem solving technique is derived from the practice of work study and management consultancy.
▪ And with good reason: the signs are that Saatchi is finding it difficult to sell the management consultancy division alone.
▪ So persuasive she could consider diverting into management consultancy.
▪ The companies involved range from specialist textiles and engineering, to management consultancy and language training.
▪ The information memorandum can be prepared under the guise of a management consultancy report.
▪ And we will continue to support Total Quality Management consultancies.
service
▪ The specialists, in turn, provide systems support and technical and consultancy services to local customers.
▪ They also run conferences and seminars and provide in-house training and consultancy services on a range of specialist topics.
▪ An update facility means that users have access to a system which is continuously available as an in-house, interactive consultancy service.
▪ And they increasingly make revenue from research and consultancy services for commercial firms.
▪ This will serve to make our research experience and expertise more widely known to potential users of our consultancy services.
▪ Those who have little in-house capability make least use of consultancy services in all fields.
▪ The multi-disciplinary staff are actively involved in research, the provision of short courses and consultancy services.
▪ We offer a free consultancy service to advise on the most appropriate and cost effective ways of meeting your money transmission needs.
work
▪ Brian works at Sexey's School and combines his teaching with statistical consultancy work with individual schools and local authorities.
▪ Consultancy work in engineering geology Engineering geological consultancy work continues to be carried out for clients in the private and public sectors.
■ VERB
provide
▪ They also run conferences and seminars and provide in-house training and consultancy services on a range of specialist topics.
▪ It provides consultancy and installation services for all flavours of Unix.
set
▪ Sergei Nazarev, who has set up a business-information consultancy in Yekaterinburg, fears that foreign investment is no guarantee of success.
▪ In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among these was Mrs Gina Franklin whose career illustrates the development of consultancies and methodology in Britain.
▪ In SUVs alone, there will soon be 70 models on the market, according to AutoPacific, another industry consultancy.
▪ New business Public relations consultancies no more want to stand still than any other business enterprise.
▪ Professional people do so on a consultancy basis, skilled manual workers as and when they can.
▪ The group's flagship consultancy business was again its biggest contributor, delivering revenue of £47.3m, up 20 per cent.
▪ The group's long-term aim is to get into non-Bull sites to deliver its consultancy and networking services.
▪ There is also Cortex which we set up last year as a process engineering consultancy with a keen interest in environmental work.
▪ Veronica and Angela both have two children and both work for engineering consultancies.
Wiktionary
consultancy

n. A consultant or consulting firm.

WordNet
consultancy

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.