private consultation

collocation in English

meaningsofprivateandconsultation

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private
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.vət/us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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consultation
noun
uk
/ˌkɒn.sʌlˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.sʌlˈteɪ.ʃən/
a meeting to discuss something or to ...
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(Definition ofprivateandconsultationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I will not go any further into the quotation, but will be available forprivateconsultationon it later on!
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He prayed in aid someprivateconsultationthat he had had.
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Worried, she agreed to pay the fee forprivateconsultationand was seen within five days.
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He was refused the opportunity forprivateconsultation.
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In police stations up and down the land, facilities are available to enable people to haveprivateconsultation.
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If there is to beprivateconsultation, those other groups ought to be represented.
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Maybe it increases their income; maybe it is because the patients want to attend aprivateconsultation.
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The waiting list to see a skin specialist was 30 weeks, so she and her husband paid for aprivateconsultation.
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There is a widespread assumption that patients who merely pay a private fee for aprivateconsultation somehow manage to elevate themselves up the waiting-list.
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Privateconsultationfor my constituents is becoming the rule rather than the exception.
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The implication is that, through the medium ofprivateconsultation, specialists are allowing such persons as may pay them a fee to jump the queue.
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As a result of the consultation which has been proceeding—it has beenprivateconsultation, not public—the gap has been narrowed.
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Since that review we are referring to the standard waiting list those patients who have aprivateconsultationand then need in-patient admission.
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He said that he would like all pharmacies to contain an area forprivateconsultation.
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A contract was awarded forprivateconsultationwith one of their own companies.
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Perhaps they are having aprivateconsultation.
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I have no evidence that patients who have hadprivateconsultationreceive any greater priority in admission to hospital as non-paying patients than is warranted by their medical condition.
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It would not break downprivateconsultationin that case any more than it would break downprivateconsultation between the patient and the doctor on whose panel he was.
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We have, in these circumstances, in a number of cases, byprivateconsultationwith companies, enabled them to pull round and so protected the policy-holders without any damaging public rumours.
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