consult

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• consultation

Origin

• From Middle French consulter, from Latin cōnsultō ("to deliberate, consult"), frequentative of cōnsulō, from com- + -sulō, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁-.