English > conference: 3 senses > noun 3, communication| Meaning | A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic. |
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| Synonym | group discussion |
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| Narrower | bull session | An informal discussion (usually among men) |
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| colloquy | A conversation especially a formal one |
| consultation, audience, interview | A conference (usually with someone important) |
| consultation | A conference between two or more people to consider a particular question |
| huddle, powwow | (informal) a quick private conference |
| press conference, news conference | A conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician / politician or other celebrity |
| pretrial, pretrial conference | (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried |
| round table, roundtable, round-table conference | A meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views |
| session | A meeting for execution of a group's functions |
| teach-in | An extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issue |
| teleconference, teleconferencing | A conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television |
| Broader | discussion, give-and-take, word | An exchange of views on some topic |
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| Spanish | conferencia, congreso |
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| Catalan | conferència, congrés |
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| Verbs | confer | have a conference in order to talk something over |
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