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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Consultation \Con'sul*ta"tion\, noun [L. consultatio: cf. F. consultation.]
1. The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended. --Milton.
2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.
{Writ of consultation} (Law), a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
consultation
noun
1: a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king" [syn: {audience}, {interview}]
2: a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question; "frequent consultations with his lawyer"; "a consultation of several medical specialists"
3: the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" [syn: {reference}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "consultation": admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, audience, bargaining, bargaining session, briefing, caution, caveat, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, convention, council, council fire, council of war, counsel, direction, discussion, exchange of views, exhortation, expostulation, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, guidance, high-level talk, hortation, huddle, idea, instruction, interchange of views, interview, meeting, monition, negotiations, news conference, opinion, palaver, parley, pourparler, powwow, press conference, proposal, recommendation, remonstrance, seance, session, sitting, suggestion, summit, summit conference, summitry, thought, warning
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