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consultant

[ kuhn-suhl-tnt ]

noun

  1. a person who gives professional or expert advice:

    a consultant on business methods.

  2. a person who consults someone or something.


consultant

/ əˈʌəԳ /

noun

    1. a senior physician, esp a specialist, who is asked to confirm a diagnosis or treatment or to provide an opinion
    2. a physician or surgeon holding the highest appointment in a particular branch of medicine or surgery in a hospital
  1. a specialist who gives expert advice or information
  2. a person who asks advice in a consultation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • DzˈܱٲԳ, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of consultant1

First recorded in 1690–1700; from French or directly from Latin consultant- (stem of DzԲܱԲ, present participle of DzԲܱ “to take counsel”); consult, -ant
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Ignoring the advice of every Beltway consultant, some elected Democrats decided that there are worse things than falling into the “trap” of defending immigrants and the U.S.

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The court heard it was the unanimous view of three very experienced consultant forensic psychiatrists that she was suffering a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia at the time.

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Courtney Scott, an elephant consultant with animal welfare organization In Defense of Animals, said she had mixed feelings about the L.A.

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And we’re not consultants either; we don’t just come in for 10 minutes and consult.

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As former Republican political consultant Mike Madrid put it, yes, we need to walk and chew gum, “but let’s not pretend that they’re equal, because they’re not.”

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