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Definition: Consultancy |
ConsultancyNoun1. The practice of giving expert advice within a particular field; "a busines management consultancy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Labor | The work or position of a consultant. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Consultancy |
| Specialty definitions using "consultancy": Colour Me Beautiful ♦ Hedge Fund Research, high flux reactor ♦ Independent Project Analysis, Independent Project Analysis, Inc., Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine, Interaction Process Analysis ♦ Netmarq Limited ♦ Physical Sciences Inc.. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | American firms have never really had a presence in the small or medium-size consultancy markets. (references) | |
U.S. engineering, design, project management, and consultancy services are estimated to hold a 75 percent market share. (references) | ||
Security Access Control Equipment Various types of consultancy services such as airport design and layout, privatization, and leasing. (references) | ||
Economic History | Maldives | Financial--banking, accounting and management consultancy. (references) |
Netherlands | Accounting and auditing services, tax and management consultancy. (references) | |
Kenya | Financial consultancy and management in the country has not picked up but is ripe for development. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | The Finance Ministry hired a private consultancy firm to review whether comprehensiveness and a proper risk analysis are guaranteed in connection with the AKB's assumptions of liabilities. (references) |
Trade | India | Deferred credit can also cover Indian consultancy, technology and other services. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Consultancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.03% of the time. "Consultancy" is used about 717 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.03% | 710 | 9,437 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.7% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 0.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 717 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "consultancy": management consultancy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "consultancy": consultancy-oriented. | |
Ending with "consultancy": exit-consultancy, management-consultancy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "consultancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | å'¨è¯¢å¦æ ¡. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rådgivningskontor (consultancy company, consultant company, consultant firm, consultants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Nepostel (Nederlands Consultancy Foundation for Post and Telecommunication, Nepostel), adviesburo (consultancy company, consultant company, consultant firm, consultants), adviesbureau (advisory firm, consultancy company, consultant company, consultant firm, consultants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | société de conseil (consultancy company, consultant company, consultant firm, consultants), registre central d'experts-conseils (Central Consultancy Register). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Beratungsfirma (business consultancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ufficio di consulenza (consultancy company, consultant company, consultant firm, consultants), ufficio consultivo (consultancy company, consultant company, consultant firm, consultants), registro centrale di consultazione (Central Consultancy Register). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ìƒë‹´ (Consulting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsultancycay конÑультирование. (various references) consultorÃa gerencial (management consultancy), registro central de consultorÃa (Central Consultancy Register). (various references) конÑультуваннÑ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Consultancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: consultance, consultancey, consultantcy, consultanty, consultency. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "consultancy" (pronounced kunsu"ltunsē) |
| 5 | -t u n s ē | accountancy, competency, consistency, constancy, expectancy, hesitancy, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, latency, militancy, potency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, complacency, Conservancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expediency, fluency, frequency, immunodeficiency, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, leniency, malignancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-l-n-n-o-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: constancy. | |
-3 letters: accounts, osculant. | |
-4 letters: account, cantons, canyons, conatus, consult, layouts, locusta, occults, outlays, scantly, talcous, toucans, unsoncy. | |
-5 letters: accost, annoys, annuls, astony, auntly, cactus, cannot, canons, canton, cantos, cantus, canyon, clonus, clouts, coacts, consul, costal, costly, cotans, counts, county, cutlas, cyclos, cytons, layout, locust, lunacy, nancys, nonyls, nounal, nylons, occult, octans, octyls, oscula. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-l-n-n-o-s-t-u-y" | |
+5 letters: constructionally. | |
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