consultancy
Americannoun
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consultancies
plural
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the state of being a consultant; the position of a consultant.
a consultancy with a government agency.
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a person or firm that provides consulting advice or services.
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of consultancy
Explanation
If it's your job to give advice about how to run a lemonade stand, you've started your own lemonade-selling consultancy, or a business that gives expert information about a particular field. Most consultancies have to do with the business world, as when a company that's trying to avoid harming the environment hires an environmental consultancy to provide expert tips about how to be more environmentally friendly. But any firm that's in the business of giving advice — whether to governments or schools or sports teams — can be described as a consultancy.
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Sara Holoubek is the founding partner of Luminary Labs, a strategy and innovation consultancy, an independent board director and angel investor.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Will Lecky, co-founder and director of know.space, the space economics consultancy, says that matters because the global playing field is not level.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
German newspaper Der Spiegel had previously accused City of paying a "significant portion" of Mancini's compensation "by way of a fictitious consultancy contract".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Daniel Kritenbrink, a former US official now with The Asia Group consultancy, said there's "no doubt that both leaders would like to see stability in the relationship, at least through the end of the year."
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
His address was easy to find— I Googled him and found www.shipwellconsulting.co.uk, the site where he advertises “a range of consultancy, cloud- and web-based services for business and nonprofit organizations.”
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Nearly 18,000 organisations including lobbying firms, consultancies, multinational corporations, trade unions and civil society groups are listed in the EU's Transparency Register.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The World Cup’s organizing body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, and its partner consultancies estimate the tournament could generate up to $40.9 billion in global gross domestic product.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
OpenAI in February partnered with consultancies McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Accenture and Capgemini, allowing its engineering teams to work alongside those firms’ consultants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Meanwhile, OpenAI in February announced its “Frontier Alliance,” a program anchored by consultancies, including Accenture.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Together with major league consultancies, such as Baker-McKinsey, they coached Russian entrepreneurs and managers in the ways of the West.
From Crime and Corruption by Samuel Vaknin
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