consultancy

English

Etymology

From consultant +‎ -cy or consult +‎ -ancy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kənˈsʌl.tən.si/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɐl.tən.si/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈkən.səl.ˈʈen.siː/

Noun

consultancy (countable and uncountable, plural consultancies)

1. A consultant or consulting firm.

   For a PR campaign like never before, one needs a consultancy of unprecedented scope and power.

2. The services offered by a consultant.

   I've been doing IT consultancy for three years.

Derived terms

• e-consultancy

Translations

consulting firm

• Dutch: adviesbureau (nl) n, consultancybedrijf (nl) n
• Finnish: konsulttiyhtiö
• French: cabinet de conseil m, société de conseil f
• Italian: consulenza (it) f
• Polish: firma konsultingowa f
• Portuguese: consultoria (pt) f
• Sicilian: cunzulenza f

See also

• consultancy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia