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Meaning:

Noun:

  • obsolete: A council; a meeting for consultation.
  • obsolete: Agreement; concert.
  • obsolete: The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.
  • US: A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To advise or offer expertise.
  • intransitive To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
  • intransitive To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
  • ''(transitive),'' obsolete: To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
  • ''(transitive),'' obsolete: To deliberate upon; to take for.
  • transitive To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.
  • transitive To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.

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