consultations
Professional advice sessions
Consultations are meetings where advice or information is sought, typically from professionals or experts.
A doctor schedules consultations with patients; a lawyer offers initial consultations to potential clients.
The word implies a formal exchange where one party has expertise the other needs: After consultations with tribal leaders, the agency revised its proposal.
In business and government, consultations often precede decisions, gathering input from stakeholders.
Scheduled times for meetings
- sessionsPeriods for specific activities
- conferencesOrganized professional assemblies
- summitsHighest elevations or conferences
- forumsVenues for collective discourse
roundtables · seminars · workshops · hearings · briefings · interviews · audiences · sit-downs
Advice for decisions
- counselExpert guidance offered
- recommendationsProposed courses of action
- suggestionsProposed ideas or advice
- feedbackReturned response data
assessment · evaluation · analysis · diagnosis · referral · insights · direction · proposals
Spoken exchange between parties
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- talksSpeaks with others
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
discourse · collaboration · outreach · consensus-building · engagement · participatory
Permitted by statute
- medicalOf healthcare practice
- financialRelating to money
- taxMandatory public revenue charge
- businessCommercial activity or occupation
management · IT · HR · engineering · architectural · environmental · regulatory · compliance
Potential for success
- scopeExtent or range
- requirementsNecessary conditions for something
- blueprintingCreating detailed technical plans
- roadmappingOutlining a forward path
appointments
Scheduled times for meetings
- sessionsPeriods for specific activities
- conferencesOrganized professional assemblies
- summitsHighest elevations or conferences
forums · roundtables · seminars · workshops · hearings · briefings · interviews · audiences · sit-downs · one-on-ones
guidance
Advice for decisions
- counselExpert guidance offered
- recommendationsProposed courses of action
- suggestionsProposed ideas or advice
feedback · assessment · evaluation · analysis · diagnosis · referral · insights · direction · proposals · solutions
dialogue
Spoken exchange between parties
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- talksSpeaks with others
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
exchange · discourse · collaboration · outreach · consensus-building · engagement · participatory
legal
Permitted by statute
business · management · IT · HR · engineering · architectural · environmental · regulatory · compliance · technical
feasibility
Potential for success
- scopeExtent or range
- requirementsNecessary conditions for something
- blueprintingCreating detailed technical plans
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- pharmacypharmacist, pharmacy, prescription, dispensing, prescriptions
- discussionsdiscussion, discussions, forum, talks, roundtable
- library servicesyouth services, bookmobiles, reference desk, reference librarian, mobile libraries
- outpatient carecheckup, check-up, checkups, physical exam, well visits
- civic engagementcivic engagement, citizen participation, civic participation, civic responsibility, civic activism
consultationsself-reliance
Depending on oneself alone
consultationssnap decisions
consultationssilence
Total lack of sound
noncommunication · stonewalling · withholding · secrecy · information blackout
- legal consultationProfessional guidance on law
- pediatrician consultationMedical visit for minors
- free consultationMeeting without payment required
- medical consultationMeeting with a physician
- consultation roomPrivate space for appointments
- virtual consultationRemote professional meeting online