consulta

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An official meeting or consultation.
    — One method that has been carried out by the Zapatistas and by their sympathizers is the practice of consulta, referendum, and plebisite.[…] A consulta has to do with voting, but it is voting that takes place alongside debate between different people.
  2. The meeting of a government council, especially of an Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese government or agency.
    — The magistrates of each province also send a procuratour to the general consulta; and when all the procuratours are assembled at Corte,[…] may proceed to the election of the president and oratour of the general consulta.
  3. The minutes or report of such a government council.
    — the council of Indies sent […] their consulta relative to my colony. In this consulta, bearing the date of 26th November, 1819, his majesty was advised of the unanimous decision of the council, in favor of a grant to me in Mexico

词形变化

consultas plural

词源

From Italian consulta and Spanish consulta, attested in English since the eighteenth century. Doublet of consult.
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