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# consultant

«consultant» in Mova's school dictionary: **to give expert advice to businesses or people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a consultant, consultants)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is to give expert advice to businesses or people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#m1)

2) (UK, Ireland) A senior hospital doctor who is an expert in one area (a heart consultant). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and work life: a computer consultant, a business consultant. In UK hospitals: the consultant is the top doctor for a patient. In maths problems: a consultant charges per hour.

### examples

- The consultant helped the company save money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#x1)
- Grandma saw a consultant at the hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#x2)
- She works as an IT consultant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#x3)
- The consultant charged 80 pounds an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#x4)
- The school hired a consultant to plan the new library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#x5)
- My dad's a consultant in children's medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/#x6)

### note

Verb: consult; noun: consultation. In maths, «per hour» fees mean multiply by the hours.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «consultant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consultant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.