Other forms: consultancies
A consultancy is a firm that sells expert advice. Bring in a consultancy.
It is hired for capacity as often as for knowledge, and for cover more often than either. A consultancy report is sometimes bought so that a decision already taken can be attributed elsewhere.
1nounconsultancyA firm that sells expert advice.
“After leaving the bank, she started her own consultancy advising small businesses.”
consultancy is a firm.
From consultant, from Latin consultare, to take counsel.
Latin
consulto — to deliberate, consult
French
consultant
English
consultant
English, today
consultancy
Built from
From consultant + cy or consult + ancy. consultant comes from French consultant, present participle of consulter, from Latin consulto (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of consulo (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulere, of uncertain origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA