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A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic
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conference
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "act of conferring," from Middle French conférence (15c.), from Medieval Latin conferentia , from Latin conferens , present participle of conferre (see confer ). Meaning "formal meeting for consultation" is from 1580s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a conference centre ▪ Westgate Hotel has sixty bedrooms and a conference centre. a party conference ▪ He will give a speech at the Tory party conference this morning. a peace conference ▪ Will the US be sending a delegate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views. 2 (context politics English) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation. 3 (context science English) A formalized event where scientists present their research ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members [syn: league ] a discussion among participants who have an agreed ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A conference is a meeting of people who "confer" about a topic. Convention (meeting) , meeting of a, usually large, group of individuals and/or companies in a certain field Academic conference , in science and academic, a formal event where researchers ...
Usage examples of conference.
Earl, finding Miss Morville in conference with Abney, was a little conscience-stricken.
I take Ulric abovestairs so that you may continue with your conference?
Mikolajczyk also accepts that part of the decisions of the Crimea Conference which deals with the eastern frontiers of Poland.
Mikolajczyk an explanation as to whether he also accepts that part of the decisions of the Crimea Conference on Poland which deals with the eastern frontiers of Poland.
Fleming and Hees had no idea of the furor they had caused in Canada, until they landed in Rome the day after the Accra conference.
Yusef Shah, the Afridi chief, his three headmen and his American ally, and who had turned the friendly conference suddenly into a holocaust of murder.
Mother Aglee sought her iffling, Mother Miaree, wearing the robes of the first lady of all the Artonuee, entered a large conference room to be briefed on the state of the system.
The day after their meeting she had found Aunt Alphonsine all a dry frightened gibber, holding a whitefaced conference with Grandmother in the parlour, and they had asked her if she had known that Peacey had left Torque Hall that morning.
TALKED WITH Ellis Alves again, alone, in a small conference room on the thirty-second floor at Cone, Oakes and Baldwin.
I was glad therefore on her account, even more than on my own, when, a scratch at the door having obtained admission for an amba, it placed before me a message from Esmo requesting a private conference.
He had, as we have seen, turned down the Russian proposal for a conference after the Anschluss to discuss means of opposing further German aggression.
Litvinov had proposed - as he had just a year before, after the Anschluss - a European conference, this time of France, Britain, Poland, Russia, Rumania and Turkey, which would join together to stop Hitler.
Stuttgart Conference which Belongs to this picture of my first encounter with Anthroposophy, and gave it special weight for anyone in my situation at that period.
America organised the first global antidrug conference in Shanghai in an attempt to persuade other nations to ban the Far Eastern opium trade.
How would you feel if the Christian right held a press conference, putting out rumors to promote its antigay agenda?