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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of consulting.
  • noun A conference at which advice is given or views are exchanged.
  • noun A meeting between physicians to discuss the diagnosis or treatment of a case.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of consulting; deliberation of two or more persons with a view to some decision; especially, a deliberation in which one party acts as adviser to the other.
  • noun A meeting of persons to consult together; specifically, a meeting of experts, as physicians or counsel, to confer about a specific case.

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

  • noun The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
  • noun A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.
  • noun (Law) a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the act of consulting
  • noun a conference for the exchange of information and advice
  • noun An appointment or meeting with a professional person, such as a doctor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a conference (usually with someone important)
  • noun a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question
  • noun the act of referring or consulting

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  • T.H.E.: '"In concrete terms, one might see the contemporary plethora of educational quangos as the means by which the state's educational orthodoxies are ... policed," Mr Lea said.

    'Quangos establish such orthodoxies by consulting academics then ignoring their comments, he added... "At the end of a consultation, you often do not feel your view has been taken seriously, but you are told: 'We consulted with you.'"'

    March 19, 2009