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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
- 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"
- Well, having the largest economy confers an advantages in affording a very large military, and having a very large military was useful in the era of great power military conflicts. Matthew Yglesias » Will China Ever Dominate?
- The launch was held at a press conference at which graphic footage of foxhunting, staghunting and hare coursing was also released.