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Another word for consultation

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Noun

  1. An exchange of views in an attempt to reach a decision

      1. A discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of truce or other matters.
      2. To have a discussion, especially with an enemy.
      1. The act or process of deliberating.
      2. Discussion and consideration of all sides of an issue:
      3. Thoughtfulness in decision or action.
      1. The act of exchanging opinions and ideas; consultation:
      2. Advice or guidance, especially as solicited from a knowledgeable person.
      3. Private, guarded thoughts or opinions:
      1. A meeting for consultation or discussion.
      2. An exchange of views.
      3. A meeting of committees to settle differences between two legislative bodies.
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Another word for consultation

Noun
      1. The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
      2. An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.
      1. The act or process of deliberating.
      2. Discussion and consideration of all sides of an issue:
      3. Thoughtfulness in decision or action.
      1. A meeting for consultation or discussion.
      2. An exchange of views.
      3. A meeting of committees to settle differences between two legislative bodies.
      1. A formal meeting in person, especially one arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an applicant.
      2. A conversation, such as one conducted by a reporter, in which facts or statements are elicited from another.
      3. An account or a reproduction of such a conversation.
    See also:

    discussion

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Sentence Examples

  • The whole consultation passed more than quietly.

  • I think he will not be out of place in a family consultation; is it not so, Prince?

  • In cases that call for consultation together, the Consistorium and the Synod appoint committees to confer.

  • After consultation with the diet the king promulgated, on the 4th of September 1831, a new constitution which is the basis of the present government.

  • Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine--not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs.

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