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UK
/kˈɒnfɹəns/
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[ US /ˈkɑnfɝəns, ˈkɑnfɹəns/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑnfɝəns, ˈkɑnfɹəns/ ]
NOUN
- an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
- a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)
- a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic
How To Use conference 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.
- 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"
- The launch was held at a press conference at which graphic footage of foxhunting, staghunting and hare coursing was also released.
- We've seen these kind of games played before in conference, where conferees drop provisions which they should not drop when they're both in the House and the Senate bills.
- He took nourishment from press conferences, where he was notably generous, but not bountiful enough to promise a match.