confer
IPA: kʌnfˈɝ
noun
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
- (intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
- (obsolete) To compare.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather.
- (obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.
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Examples of "confer" in Sentences
- What retarded the conference
- The speech split the conference.
- They conferred with their family.
- But the conference was all for naught.
- Brown was a participant in the conference.
- Learn about the origins of the conference.
- It misrepresents the findings of the conference.
- The college is a member of the Centennial Conference.
- But none of these titles confer upon me the right of property.
- The conference was to discuss the unification of the interested youth groups.
- The two largest conferences are the annual conference and the midwinter meeting.
- It is short for the Latin word confer and instructs the reader to compare one thing with another.
- What I also try to confer is that you don't need divine interaction when talking about designs or goal-orientation.
- It did not even go so far as to say, "We will confer, that is the right method"; it said, "We will learn how to confer."
- Amendment does not secure the ballot to woman, neither does it to the negro; for it does not in terms confer the ballot upon any one.
- For decades it was easy to consider the Electoral College a harmless vestige — or to predict that should it ever again confer victory on a popular loser, as it had in 1876 and in 1888, there would be such an outcry that it would be abolished.
- The problem with allowing firearms officers to confer is that it opens those same officers up to charges of collusion and fabrication and it gives every aggrieved person a whopping big target to fling crap at, and every time they do public confidence in the police is hurt.