Consultation
[kɒnsəl'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑnsl'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question; 'frequent consultations with his lawyer'; 'a consultation of several medical specialists'.
(noun.) a conference (usually with someone important); 'he had a consultation with the judge'; 'he requested an audience with the king'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
(n.) A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Conference.[2]. Counsel, meeting for deliberation.
Editor: Olivia
Examples
- I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They must tell their stories without any previous consultation with you, if none has yet taken place (another look at the jury). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We shall have a consultation, of course. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- During this last consultation, and before a decision had been reached, the battle began by the National troops opening fire on the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Their pale eyes clung together in prolonged and serious consultation; then a faint smile fluttered over Mrs. van der Luyden's face. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was true; for after some appearance of irresolution and consultation, the whole party got on their horses and rode away. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I have been detained, she said, by a consultation with Mr. Fairlie on a domestic matter which he wished to speak to me about. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I want to have a consultation with you about dinner. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is upon the word educational that stress must be laid, and upon the idea that information must precede consultation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He promised to come to me as soon as he could disengage himself from Knightley; but he and Knightley are shut up together in deep consultation. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This would attract similar lights from various dark quarters, like so many insects, and a fresh consultation would be held. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Bella felt a little vague trepidation as to the subject-matter of this same consultation, until Mrs Boffin announced it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- During two years I have had three consultations and one small job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- All the ex-queen's friends were his friends; no week passed that he did not hold consultations with her at Windsor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am going to have great consultations with Mr. Garth: he can tell me almost everything I want to know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Rhoda