consultation

Noun
Synonyms: audienceinterviewreference

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a conference (usually with someone important)“he had a consultation with the judge”“he requested an audience with the king”Synonyms: audienceinterview
  2. a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question“frequent consultations with his lawyer”“a consultation of several medical specialists”
  3. the act of referring or consulting“reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer”Synonyms: reference
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Consultation \Con`sul*ta"tion\, n. [L. consultatio: cf. F. consultation.]

1.The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. [1913 Webster]

Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause. [1913 Webster]

Writ of consultation (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. [1913 Webster]

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