Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to consultation; determined by consultation or reflection; maturely considered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.

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  • adjective Determined by, or relating to, consultation; deliberate.

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  • adjective giving advice

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Examples

  • I have been asked for consultive opinions by several groups and could not find anything close to the kind of critical mass needed based on the “evidence” they produced.

    Firedoglake » Kill the Messenger 2006

  • But our U.S. commanders and our diplomatic mission, there is a consultive relationship with the government.

    CNN Transcript May 29, 2005 2005

  • The president is in a consultive mood on this point.

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2001 2001

  • The Danish king ordered legislation for the establishment of four consultive assemblies on independence of Schleswig-Holstein, which would meet in Roskilde, Urbog, Schleswig, and Itzehoe.

    2. Denmark and Iceland 2001

  • It would integrate “diagnostic and evaluation services, emergency psychiatric units, outpatient services, inpatient services, day and night care, foster home care, rehabilitation, consultive services to other community agencies, and mental health information and education.”

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • Existing town planning schemes which have held apartheid structures together must go, while participation by civil society in developemt forums at local level should be aimed at, according to delegates at a PWV development planning and environment consultive conference held in Johannesburg.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Existing town planning schemes which have held apartheid structures together must go, while participation by civil society in developemt forums at local level should be aimed at, according to delegates at a PWV development planning and environment consultive conference held in Johannesburg.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • It would integrate “diagnostic and evaluation services, emergency psychiatric units, outpatient services, inpatient services, day and night care, foster home care, rehabilitation, consultive services to other community agencies, and mental health information and education.”

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • Then, too, Pierre had visited one of the consultive prelates, Monsignor Fornaro, who was so ambitious and affable, and so subtle a theologian that he would have discovered attacks against the faith in a treatise on algebra, had his interests required it.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • Then, too, Pierre had visited one of the consultive prelates, Monsignor Fornaro, who was so ambitious and affable, and so subtle a theologian that he would have discovered attacks against the faith in a treatise on algebra, had his interests required it.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

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