Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A consultant or consulting firm.

    For a PR campaign like never before, one needs a consultancy of unprecedented scope and power.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The services offered by a consultant.

    I've been doing IT consultancy for three years.

More definitions
  • the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Mary works at a prestigious consultancy firm.

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  2. “Vietnam is emerging as a key player in Southeast Asia’s medical tourism industry,” the consultancy says.

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Translations

4 languages

Origin

From consultant + -cy or consult + -ancy.

From consultant + -cy or consult + -ancy.

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Forms

plural: consultancies
Singularconsultancy
Pluralconsultancies

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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