consultation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: consultation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for consultation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
consultation n a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king" Synonym(s): consultation, audience, interview a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question; "frequent consultations with his lawyer"; "a consultation of several medical specialists" the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" Synonym(s): reference, consultation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consultation \Con`sul*ta"tion\, n. [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.