consultancy
noun
con·sul·tan·cy
kən-ˈsəl-tᵊn(t)-sē 
plural consultancies
1
: the act or an instance of consulting : consultation
Imagine finding out that you were about to have four children. For Amanda Rogers, that is exactly what she was told during a consultancy in the early part of her pregnancy.—
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a
: an agency that provides consulting services
The company has hired an excellent marketing consultancy.
b
: the services provided by a consultancy or a consultant
Grants of £500 will also be made available for business support or consultancy [=consultation] for property owners seeking specialist advice on bringing their building back into commercial use.—Sean Doherty and Andy Robinson
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c
chiefly British
: the position of a consultant
The doctor was offered a consultancy at the municipal hospital.
She left her position with the company to move into consultancy [=consulting].
Examples of consultancy in a Sentence
The company has hired an excellent marketing consultancy.
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But once the strait reopens, global supplies will likely be higher than would otherwise have been the case, David Oxley, chief climate and commodities economist at consultancy Capital Economics, wrote in a note.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
Yet Johnson and Fernandez, who started a consultancy around the time of Jack Thorne’s blistering MacTaggart address about disability before moving to Casarotto, say their research has found that fewer than 20% of TV productions have worked with access coordinators.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
Modern operations consultancy Quail Group notes that in many organizations, operational systems drift toward rewarding visible activity, the messages sent, meetings attended, and tasks moved, while the deeper aim of meaningful outcomes becomes less prominent in day‑to‑day execution.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Higher oil prices meant that for the same amount of product, the world’s top 100 oil and gas companies earned an extra $30 million every hour during the first month of the war, according to an analysis earlier this month by the Guardian and Rystad Energy, a consultancy.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
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Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
Yet Johnson and Fernandez, who started a consultancy around the time of Jack Thorne’s blistering MacTaggart address about disability before moving to Casarotto, say their research has found that fewer than 20% of TV productions have worked with access coordinators.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
Modern operations consultancy Quail Group notes that in many organizations, operational systems drift toward rewarding visible activity, the messages sent, meetings attended, and tasks moved, while the deeper aim of meaningful outcomes becomes less prominent in day‑to‑day execution.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Higher oil prices meant that for the same amount of product, the world’s top 100 oil and gas companies earned an extra $30 million every hour during the first month of the war, according to an analysis earlier this month by the Guardian and Rystad Energy, a consultancy.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Consultancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consultancy. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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