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adj. - Giving advice.

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Usage examples (16)
  • The president is in a consultive mood on this point.
  • But our U.S. commanders and our diplomatic mission, there is a consultive relationship with the government.
  • I have been asked for consultive opinions by several groups and could not find anything close to the kind of critical mass needed based on the “evidence” they produced.
  • The Danish king ordered legislation for the establishment of four consultive assemblies on independence of Schleswig-Holstein, which would meet in Roskilde, Urbog,...
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