consultancy

noun con·sul·tan·cy \ kən-ˈsəl-tᵊn(t)-sē \

Updated on: 17 Apr 2018

Definition of consultancy

plural consultancies

1 : consultation

2 : an agency that provides consulting services

The company has hired an excellent marketing consultancy.

3 : the position of a consultant

The doctor was offered a consultancy at the municipal hospital.

See consultancy defined for English-language learners

Examples of consultancy in a Sentence

The company has hired an excellent marketing consultancy.

Recent Examples of consultancy from the Web

Wolbe’s is a pilot project sponsored by Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Innovation Team, a consultancy within city hall.

— nate berg, Los Angeles Magazine, "How to Build a Rental Unit or Granny Flat in Your Backyard," 12 Apr. 2018
Aaron Turner, president of the mobile security consultancy Integricell, was among the experts who conducted the 2014 sweeps, in part to try to drum up business.

— CBS News, "Rogue cellphone-tracking devices detected in Washington, feds say," 3 Apr. 2018
Here is a visual representation of how much zero-carbon energy will be lost to the PJM grid if all four of these nuclear plants close on schedule, courtesy of consultancy GPG.

— david roberts, Vox, "The simple argument for keeping nuclear power plants open," 5 Apr. 2018
Aaron Turner, president of the mobile security consultancy Integricell, was among the experts who conducted the 2014 sweeps, in part to try to drum up business.

— Time, "Foreign Governments Could Be Using High-Tech Gadgets to Intercept Calls and Texts in Washington," 3 Apr. 2018
His consultancy, North Star Research, is based in a stately federalist row house in Alexandria.

— alexander nazaryan, Newsweek, "Can Donald Trump, the Most Unpopular President Ever, Save Republicans From a Massive Defeat in 2018?," 21 Feb. 2018
However, Jake Williams, founder of cybersecurity consultancy Rendition Infosec, said the ransomware part of the WannaCry virus is broken and there’s actually no way to pay a ransom that will retrieve files once encrypted.

— dominic gates, chicagotribune.com, "Boeing hit by WannaCry virus, but says attack caused little damage," 29 Mar. 2018
The changes come during a crisis moment after revelations that the data consultancy Cambridge Analytica had wrongfully obtained the Facebook profiles on at least 30 million US Facebook users.

— elizabeth dwoskin, BostonGlobe.com, "Facebook makes its privacy controls simpler as company faces data reckoning," 29 Mar. 2018
PwC, a consultancy, estimated in 2016 that the data-analytics industry in Britain was already worth up to £500m ($700m), employing 6,700 people.

— The Economist, "Britain moves to rein in data-analytics," 28 Mar. 2018

These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'consultancy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.