consultation (n.)

• admonition
• advice
• advocacy
• audience
• bargaining
• briefing
• caution
• caveat
• conclave
• confab
• confabulation
• conference
• confrontation
• congress
• convention
• council
• counsel
• direction
• discussion
• exhortation
• expostulation
• guidance
• hortation
• huddle
• idea
• instruction
• interview
• meeting
• monition
• negotiations
• opinion
• palaver
• parley
• powwow
• proposal
• recommendation
• remonstrance
• seance
• session
• sitting
• suggestion
• summit
• thought
• warning