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UK
/kənfˈɜː/
]
[ US /kənˈfɝ/ ]
[ US /kənˈfɝ/ ]
VERB
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present
The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated
bestow an honor on someone -
have a conference in order to talk something over
We conferred about a plan of action
How To Use confer In A Sentence
- The conference has become a bit of a squeeze this year. Times, Sunday Times
- The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
- Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
- Now St. Paul had seen the gift conferred at Ephesus and St. Luke does not distinguish Ephesian glossolaly from that of Jerusalem. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- The conference has become a bit of a squeeze this year. Times, Sunday Times
- The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.
- He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
- Memphis was 7-3 entering the week, but six of the victories were against teams from lesser conferences.
- The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
- During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh in 1617 he accordingly published the first chiliad of his logarithms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"