CONSULTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consultation mean? 

• CONSULTATION (noun)
  The noun CONSULTATION has 3 senses:

1. a conference (usually with someone important)

2. a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question

3. the act of referring or consulting

  Familiarity information: CONSULTATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSULTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conference (usually with someone important)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

audience; consultation; interview

Context example:

he requested an audience with the king

Hypernyms ("consultation" is a kind of...):

conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)

Derivation:

consult (have a conference in order to talk something over)

consult (get or ask advice from)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A conference between two or more people to consider a particular question

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

a consultation of several medical specialists

Hypernyms ("consultation" is a kind of...):

conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consultation"):

sidebar ((law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing)

Derivation:

consult (advise professionally)

consult (have a conference in order to talk something over)

consult (seek information from)

consult (get or ask advice from)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of referring or consulting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

consultation; reference

Context example:

reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer

Hypernyms ("consultation" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Derivation:

consult (seek information from)

 Context examples 

Having secured him, it is evident to me that a consultation of some sort was held.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

According to Virginie Hess, who partly organised the consultation, the lack of information and control is pointed at.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

I must tell you, first of all, the interesting circumstances connected with the previous consultations which Mr. Hilton Cubitt has had with me in Baker Street.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They recommend that parents make this decision in consultation with their pediatrician.

(Circumcision, NIH)

The resource provides sequence assembly services such as plasmid, PCR product, lambda, cosmid, PAC, BAC DNA templates sequencing, and consultation services and protocols for designing sequencing strategies and for the preparation of substrates.

(DNA Sequencing Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical specialists demonstrate an in-depth understanding of complex pediatric health care by engaging in education, case management, expert clinical practice, consultation, research and administration.

(Pediatric nurse specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

Many an anxious consultation he held with Black Simon, Sam Aylward, and other of his more experienced followers, as to who should come and who should stay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Informatics nurses are engaged in clinical practice, education, consultation, research, administration, and pure informatics. (ANCC).

(Informatics Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

The clinical specialist has expertise in the process of case management, consultation, collaboration, and education of clients, staff, and other health professionals.

(Home Health Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)