WordNet
v. get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision" [syn: consult]
Usage examples of "confer with".
The vehicle commanders dismounted and gathered under the cover of their cars to confer with Ben Loman, whose face was flushed beneath a thick layer of soot.
Then he told them that he must go to Madrid to confer with the General Superior about the crisis that was facing their nation.
He did not let up often, and then only for a few minutes at a time, to confer with the guides the Altean monarchy had sent to meet them.
It is, we say, with philosophers we have to confer with respect to this theology,-men whose very name, if rendered into Latin, signifies those who profess the love of wisdom.
He also requested that some men of wisdom and experience might be sent to him, as it was necessary for him to confer with them as to the policy of the Republic.