- present participle of consult.
consulting
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employed or involved in giving professional advice to the public or to those practicing the profession.
a consulting physician.
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of, relating to, or used for consultation.
a physician's consulting room.
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Huge winners and losers within sectors, but on net sectors that will win are computers/coding, architecture, life sciences, consulting and other white collar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Raman’s campaign expenditures included $300,000 to Middle Seat, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting business that also worked on the independent expenditure group supporting Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in New York City.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Following a national consultation, the UK is moving closer to restrictions on under-16s' social media use, with ministers consulting on measures ranging from age limits to bans on addictive platform features.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
“I just thought, well, there we go. I’m just never going to wear brown shoes,” said Raath, who now runs his own consulting firm, the Ambition Company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“Then Garrison planned this cockamamie game without consulting me. You know what he said when I called him on it?”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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