consulting

[ kuhn-suhl-ting ]

adjective

1. employed or involved in giving professional advice to the public or to those practicing the profession:

   a consulting physician.

2. of, relating to, or used for consultation:

   a physician's consulting room.

consulting

/ kənˈsʌltɪŋ /

adjective

1. prenominal acting in an advisory capacity on professional matters

   a consulting engineer

Other Words From

• uncon·sulting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of consulting¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; consult + -ing ²

Example Sentences

He worked at McKinsey, the global management consulting firm, but escaped its clutches to join the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

From ProPublica

He retired less than three months later, when he was given an additional $650,000 bonus and a three-month, $300,000 consulting contract.

From Washington Post

Search as a tactic is garnering heavy investment on product and budgets, said Brent Ramos, media platform manager at digital marketing analytics and cloud consulting firm Adswerve.

From Digiday

She was on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s brand-new, $44 million website called VAMS—the Vaccine Administration Management System, built by the consulting firm Deloitte.

From MIT Technology Review

They spent weeks cold-calling and emailing hospitals, departments of public health, other branches of government and consulting companies — anyone they could think of.

From Quanta Magazine

This year the GOP closed that gap—and one all-female consulting firm is a big reason why.

From The Daily Beast

Roger Williams lured them with private plane rides, generous consulting contracts and even cash, interviews and records show.

From The Daily Beast

But then the president abruptly reversed himself—without consulting his national security Cabinet members.

From The Daily Beast

John C. Beck, now 54 years old and the owner of a consulting firm, then was 23 years old, fresh out of Harvard.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, he offers free consulting services to doctors who want to go into direct care.

From The Daily Beast

That she was unwise in assuming her own will so promptly, with little regard to consulting his, she might yet discover.

From Project Gutenberg

Without having represented to your husband the propriety of first consulting his father, on whom he is dependent, I think?

From Project Gutenberg

A good wife never does dare promise anything without consulting her husband, even about her own property.

From Project Gutenberg

It was not long before she was able to give him good advice, and it ended by his consulting her about everything.

From Project Gutenberg

Louis went down to the telephones, used one after consulting a little black book.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• consultative