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Conferee

Conferee \Con`fer*ee"\, n. [Cf. Referee.]

  1. One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

  2. One upon whom something is conferred.

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conferee

n. 1 A person who participates in a conference. 2 A person on whom something is conferred or bestowed.

WordNet
conferee
  1. n. a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were conferred; the conferees were..."

  2. a member of a conference

Usage examples of "conferee".

The Denverite members of the board, warned of his presence, had easily managed to elude him, and with others were now on their way to Argenta for a special meeting, while McCrea was still held at a distance, lured by an appointment for a conference to come off that very morning at eleven, long three hours after the other conferees had vanished from town.

Round the posters mill the conferees, sometimes reading them with interest, more frequently being volubly harangued by the poster-givers who stand like stall-keepers by their boards, and most often using the session as an extension of the conference mixer - a giant cocktail party at which to catch up with old acquaintances.

Simon was saddened by the knowledge that he would never know what happened when the conferees learned that it was not Dr.

It turns out that despite the strong House vote, the House conferees were all SSC advocates, every one of them.