consultant
UK/kənˈsʌl.tənt/
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Australia/kənˈsɐl.tənt/
consultant noun: a person or party that is consulted.
Noun
consultant (plural consultants)
- A person or party that is consulted.
- A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, service or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.
- Synonym of informant.
- Synonyms:
- informant
- A senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all specialist training and has been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality, roughly equivalent to an attending physician in North America.
consultant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
consultant in Hindi
- person or party that is consulted
- मंत्री mantrī, सलाहकार salāhkār, परामर्शदाता parāmarśadātā
consultant in Tamil
- ஆலோசகர், ஆய்ந்த அறிவுரையாளர், அறிவுரைஞர், கலந்தறிதற்குரியர், கலந்தாய் உரைஞர், உசாக்கையர்
consultant in Marathi
- सल्लागार
consultant in Urdu
- person or party that is consulted
- مُشاوِر muśāvir, صَلاح کار salāh kār, مُسْتَشار mustaśār, ناصِح nāsih
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- consultant in Bengali
- চিকিত্সক cikitśok, পরামর্শকারী poramorśokari
- consultant in Telugu
- కన్సల్టెంట్
- consultant in Malayalam
- വിദഗ്ദ്ധോപദേശകൻ, ഉപദേശകൻ, വിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, വിശേഷജ്ഞൻ
- consultant in Kannada
- ಸಲಹಾರ್ಥಿ, ಸಲಹೆ ಕೇಳುವವ, ಸಲಹಾಕಾರ, ಸಮಾಲೋಚಕ
- consultant in Punjabi
- ਸਲਾਹਕਾਰ
- consultant in Gujarati
- સલાહકાર
- consultant in Odia
- ପରାମର୍ଶଦାତା
- consultant in Tagalog
- kasangguni
- consultant in Arabic
- مُسْتَشَار mustašār, مُسْتَشَارَة mustašāra
- consultant in Malay
- perunding
- consultant in Indonesian
- konsulen, konsultan
- consultant in Thai
- ที่ปรึกษา tîi-bprʉ̀k-sǎa
- consultant in Vietnamese
- người tư vấn
- consultant in Myanmar
- အတိုင်ပင်ခံ a.tuingpanghkam
Examples of consultant in a sentence
- If this team of consultants fails, I have another warming up in the bullpen.
- He quit working for the company and decided to go it alone as a consultant instead.
- The business consultants performed a full-scale analysis of current market conditions.
Synonyms of consultant
Forms of consultant
| plural | consultants |
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Origin of consultant
From French consultant, present participle of consulter, from Latin cōnsultāre (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulere (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulere, of uncertain origin.
Words formed from consultant
Questions about consultant
- What does consultant mean?
- Consultant means a person or party that is consulted.
- What is consultant in Hindi?
- Consultant in Hindi is मंत्री (mantrī), सलाहकार (salāhkār), परामर्शदाता (parāmarśadātā). See Consultant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is consultant?
- Consultant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce consultant?
- Consultant is pronounced /kənˈsʌl.tənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of consultant?
- The plural of consultant is consultants.
Words near consultant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: consultant (page history and authors); consultant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consultant (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); consultant (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); consultant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); consultant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consultant (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); consultant (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); consultant (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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