consultancy

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

|Updated on: 11 Jun 2018

Examples: consultancy in a Sentence

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.

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Examples of consultancy in a Sentence

The company has hired an excellent marketing consultancy.

Recent Examples of consultancy from the Web

In 2016, Hussein, who had no prior interest or experience in business before Asiya, partnered with Jamie Glover, a Carlson School of Management student who does consultancy and now works full-time for Asiya, to create a business plan.

— ruqaya izzidien, Outside Online, "Fatimah Hussein Is America's Sports Hijab Pioneer," 6 June 2018
Thanks for listening, Will Will Hall is the executive creative director at Rain, a digital consultancy that helps brands innovate at the intersection of marketing and technology with a focus on voice and conversational AI.

— will hall, Recode, "Hey Siri, we have to talk," 4 June 2018
That report, prepared by Impactt Limited, an ethical-trade consultancy based in London, was based on interviews with more than 500 workers in Abu Dhabi.

— New York Times, "N.Y.U. Promised Reforms in Abu Dhabi. Report Says It Has Reneged.," 10 May 2018
Flynn noticed that about a third of her return-to-work clients at RebootAccel were interested in starting their own businesses - from consultancies to non-profits to small businesses.

— ginny brzezinski /, NBC News, "Entrepreneurship as a return to work path," 10 May 2018
Ian Thom, principal analyst at energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said the tighter deadline could work against Iraq.

— Washington Post, "Iraq’s move to rush oil bidding could deter some firms," 25 Apr. 2018
Bailey and Elliott fell first in love, then into business, taking over the little apartment above Salon Debbie Elliott in a two-story shingled building in Yarmouth to open a business consultancy called Bailey & Elliott.

— andrew goldman, Town & Country, "The Rise and Fall of F. Lee Bailey, the Lawyer Who Set O.J. Simpson Free," 9 Mar. 2018
In his day job, Washington works as chief financial officer at Edgar P. Harney Spirit of Excellence Academy and owns an accounting consultancy firm.

— jennifer larino, NOLA.com, "From 9th Ward kid to Carnival royalty, 2018 King Zulu Brent D. Washington Sr. is 'one of the strong'," 9 Feb. 2018
In all, more than 130 companies are applying A.I. in ways that could increase the efficiency of China’s health care system, according to Yiou Intelligence, an industry consultancy based in Beijing.

— sui-lee wee and paul mozur, New York Times, "Amazon Wants to Disrupt Health Care in America. In China, Tech Giants Already Have.," 31 Jan. 2018

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