Look up: consultant

1. consultant
   (job) A person who facilitates organisational change and/or provides subject matter expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation. Consultants perform business requirements analysis, recommends selection of packaged software, develop proposals for consul...
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2. Consultant
   Consultants are highly trained senior doctors. It typically takes between 10 and 16 years to become a consultant, although this time period varies between specialties. The UK has around 25,000 consultants. They are contracted to work around 35 hours a week for the NHS, although the British Medical A...
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3. consultant
   [Noun] A qualified person who gives expert advice.
   Example: A consultant was called in to see how the company could make savings.
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4. Consultant
   Where a person is taken on a self-employed or consulting basis to perform a role, as a consultant, there is tax flexibility for the worker and lower administrative burdens for the employer. Accordingly, the Inland Revenue may scrutinise such arrangements to see if they are genuine or whether they ar...
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5. Consultant
   An expert in a specialised field brought in by a library or other agency for professional or technical advice
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6. Consultant
   Consultant: An individual to whom one refers for expert advice or services. The use of consultants is common in medicine. For example, a man with puzzling pains in the joints of the hands and feet may be referred to a rheumatologist who acts as a consultant to help illuminate the nature of the pain....
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7. consultant
   one who gives professional advice or services regarding matters in the field of his special knowledge or training (as a consulting physician or engineer). Category: Labour
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8. Consultant
   A doctor who has completed specialist training and who leads a team of doctors in their speciality.
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9. Consultant
   A senior doctor who is a specialist in a particular area of medicine.
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10. consultant
    1. A physician or surgeon who does not take full responsibility for a patient, but acts in an advisory capacity, deliberating with and counseling the attending physician or surgeon. ... 2. A member of a hospital staff who has no active service but stands ready to advise in any case, at the request o...
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11. consultant
    (kәn-sul´tәnt) an individual with specialized expertise in an area who offers to share this unique knowledge with others. lactation consultant a health care professional, often with advanced certification, who provides education and management related to breastfeeding.
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12. Consultant
    Consultants whose practice includes the areas of material handling and logistics possess varying degrees of technical expertise, ranging from business process advice and design to detailed engineering design services that lead to equipment and systems being bid and procured. Although a consulting fi...
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13. Consultant
    Someone who gives expert or professional advice
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14. consultant
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kon-sŭl′tant Definitions: 1. A physician or surgeon who does not take full responsibility for a patient, but acts in an advisory capacity, deliberating with and counseling the attending physician or surgeon. 2. A member of a hospital staff who has no active servi...
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15. Consultant
    One who advises another, especially officially or professionally
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