advisory

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Questioning people & asking questions in general
ask after someone
ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
be someone's for the askingidiom
beat something out of someone
bombard
Gallup poll
inquisition
inquisitor
outpoll
pin someone down
ply someone with something
poll
pry
put someone through the millidiom
put someone through the wringeridiom
rhetorical question
roll
shoot
survey
trick question

consultative | Business English

consultative
adjective
uk /kənˈsʌltətɪv/us
giving advice about something:
consultative document/paper
a consultative committee

Examples of consultative

consultative
Unlike a nephrology consult, successful ethical practice does not easily fit in the consultative paradigm: it requires more than a 15-minute discussion.
The category of coopted membership was created last year to enable professionals to join the 63-year-old consultative body.
A convergence with the emerging participatory, consultative approach to environmental issues can be detected.
Regional co-ordination meetings serve as consultative forums, and there are national meetings of the regional co-ordinators.
Clinical caregivers have a critical role to play through fulfilling consultative and oversight responsibilities.
The 1997 party program seems equally comfortable speaking of "consultative democracy" or just "democracy" and is more explicit about the necessity of pluralism.
Multistranded, formal consultative structures and\\or less formal policy networks and various forms of ' embeddedness ' should play a role in the most promising cases.
It generally has no more than a consultative role in the process of contract definition.
At firm level, the unions wanted to extend the powers of the works councils beyond mere consultative rights to fundamental questions of management.
The results of this consultative process demonstrated agreement about the major themes and important issues raised by the respondents.
This consultative step functions both as a support for the physician as well as a double-check to prevent acts of physician-assisted death without due care.
This would make a council a consultative rather than an executive body.
The level of far mer participation in baby trial design and implementation can vary from consultative to collaborative.
It offers publishers the chance to sell their highly developed information on a subscription basis and on an ongoing consultative basis.
Its commitment to consultative decision-making has declined, however, though under certain conditions the rank and file can challenge leadership successfully.
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