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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consultative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
body
▪ Privatisation is to be pushed through without even the safeguard of a consultative body.
▪ Despite this the Duma was reduced from a legislative to a consultative body and hedged by all manner of restrictions.
▪ The creation of some form of consultative body had been promised since at least a year earlier.
▪ The reductions in status of the Duma from a legislative to a consultative body illustrates this.
committee
▪ A consultative committee could also investigate the quality of the buses.
▪ The survey's findings will be considered by the cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee.
▪ However, lengthy and complex consultative committees can hinder revision and make for a slowly changing scheme.
▪ On Friday the cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee will be told that burial costs will rise from £140 to £160.50.
▪ We are entitled to ask who will perform that task if there is no consultative committee?
▪ Despite the work of the transport users consultative committees, they do not have the teeth that ombudsmen would have.
council
▪ There is also a 210-member consultative council, the Shura, which has advisory powers.
document
▪ Copies of the consultative document are available from.
▪ At an early stage over 1500 copies of a first consultative document were circulated to teachers and others.
▪ The consultative document had an explosive effect when dropped among the profession.
▪ If the proposals are accepted, a Health and Safety Commission consultative document will follow in September.
▪ Two years ago a consultative document from the Inland Revenue proposed that the loan-back be limited to 25 percent.
▪ The Inland Revenue has released a consultative document that proposes a heavier tax charge for certain cars.
▪ Now Mr Fallon is preparing a consultative document so the Churches can comment before the new rules for capital funding are finalised.
group
▪ In addition to examining ways to generate resources it would act as a consultative group linking potential donors and beneficiaries.
▪ Following the announcement Prawiro invited the World Bank to form a new consultative group for aid co-ordination.
▪ A consultative group on provision for deaf people and those with impaired hearing has also been established.
paper
▪ This paper is one of the most important to emerge from the Council since the consultative paper on Advanced Courses in 1987.
▪ All were aspects considered and dismissed by the Institute in its consultative paper.
▪ Copies of the consultative paper, price £5, are available from the above address.
▪ Advice, comment and reaction to the consultative paper was gratefully received.
▪ The consultative paper was widely circulated and was received with mixed feelings.
▪ Staff were asked to distribute the consultative paper to members for views and comments.
▪ In her Diaries, Mrs Castle described the mood at her office on the morning after the consultative paper appeared.
process
▪ We hope our advisory group will help us clarify our responses to these and other questions during the consultative process.
▪ This consultative process has finally culminated in the publication of government White Papers setting out new proposals for change.
▪ Whatever the requirements, there is a consultative process through which the exact needs are defined and agreement as to the design established.
▪ Staff involved in this meeting did not feel this was a real consultative process.
role
▪ Nowadays Edith fulfils a more consultative role, but as ever, is always ready to give support and help when needed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The consultative committee will include representatives from all areas of the company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All were aspects considered and dismissed by the Institute in its consultative paper.
▪ In addition to examining ways to generate resources it would act as a consultative group linking potential donors and beneficiaries.
▪ In her Diaries, Mrs Castle described the mood at her office on the morning after the consultative paper appeared.
▪ Now Mr Fallon is preparing a consultative document so the Churches can comment before the new rules for capital funding are finalised.
▪ Staff were asked to distribute the consultative paper to members for views and comments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consultative

Consultative \Con*sult"a*tive\ (k[o^]n*s[u^]lt"[.a]*t[i^]v), a. Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference. ``A consultative . . . power.''
--Abp. Bramhall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consultative

1580s, from Medieval Latin *consultativus, from consultat-, past participle stem of consultare (see consultation).

Wiktionary
consultative

a. That gives advice or consultation; advisory

WordNet
consultative

adj. giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function was purely consultative" [syn: advisory, consultatory, consultive]

Usage examples of "consultative".

Etienne was a member of that concern which they styled the Consultative Committee.

Beugnot inscribed on his card: "Count Beugnot, who does not belong to the Consultative Committee.

The Grand Ayatollah had known Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, the former speaker of the Majlis-i-Shura, Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly, and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani's handpicked successor, since before the Revolution, and had watched General and so knew that the only thing between them was their uniforms.

In one sweep, Buzhazi had just dismantled Iran's civil representative government--the 270-member Islamic Consultative Assembly, the Supreme Court, and the entire federal judiciary branch of the government.

He said he wanted to be able to offer them my consultative services and to get Chief Tom Koby to make some public statements that would neutralize the large amount of misinformation Morgan felt was out before the public.

Bull set himself up on a purely consultative basis at an estate he had bought at Highwater that straddled the border of northern Vermont and his native Canada.