consulting firm
35
3.6
- noun
- /kənˈsʌltɪŋ fɜrm/
:
firma de consultoría
- The consulting firm we hired helped streamline our operations and increase efficiency.
- management consulting firm
- accounting and consulting firm
- legal consulting firm
Now he formed his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group.
- Now he formed his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group.
- I'm like, instead of doing that cold, maybe we should start a consulting firm is what I said.
- And they picked a guy who ran a tech platform, who ran a consulting firm.
- So I, I have a, a dear friend who is the head of media and entertainment at a consulting firm in Washington.
- There is not a single engineering consulting firm in North America or Europe who will sign an estimate answering that question.
- When I started my consulting firm five years ago, I used to sabotage any opportunity to potentially make more money than my mum.
- And and he was, you know, quick to temper and he was a very high strung, but, you know, as a he started his own business, a consulting firm.
- Got a job at a government contracting consulting firm.
Examples
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Volkert, Inc. is an engineering planning and environmental consulting firm.
Academic text (2012) -
I own a consulting firm that helps businesses weed out dead weight in order to see possible growth.
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We are a consulting firm...
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I did a little check on the consulting firm that wrote the report.
Fiction book (1991) -
This is a consulting firm for educational institutions.
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When I get back to New York, I'm going to set up a consulting firm in resort marketing.
Fiction book (2001) -
All businesses were engaged as clients of a prominent public accounting and consulting firm at the time of this study.
Academic text (1990) -
RainmakerThinking, Inc. is a research, training, and consulting firm focused on the working lives of those born after 1963.
Academic text (1999) -
A good number of HLS students go to consulting firms or financial institutions.
Blog text (5) -
And so I think you'll find a lot of consulting firms have very specialized roles.
Synonyms
537
3.8
A person who gives expert advice to businesses or organisations
6
3.7
A business that gives expert advice to other organizations for money
5
3.0
A company that does work for people or other companies for money
4
3.5
A service that gives expert advice to people or companies
1
4.2
A person or company that gives expert advice to help people make decisions
How Professional
35
3.6
11
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a company that provides professional advice' is directly derivable from combining 'consult' (to give expert guidance) with 'firm' (a company); 'consulting' functions adjectivally to specify the firm's service. This compositional noun phrase follows common cross-linguistic patterns and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase consulting firm paints the image of people doing consulting, meaning giving 'advice', working together in a firm, meaning a 'company'. So, it means a company of experts you hire to give professional advice.