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Definition of confer in English: conferverbconfers, conferred, conferring kənˈfəːkənˈfər 1with object Grant (a title, degree, benefit, or right) the Minister may have exceeded the powers conferred on him by Parliament Example sentencesExamples - As a custom, it became regulated by laws that confer rights and impose duties on those who practice it.
- By this very simple definition, we see that law confers rights.
- Is it alcohol or wine in particular that confers these benefits?
- It is the only means of establishing, under law, that the university has a historic power to confer degrees.
- The use of the loan system confers multiple benefits on the parties concerned.
- Those who drafted the Convention have taken pains to confer rights differentially according to a classification process.
- It does not confer a right of property as such nor does it guarantee the content of any rights in property.
- It also shows how the district confers benefits on firms in indirect ways.
- One of the things I found is that just because you pass a law and confer a benefit doesn't mean people know it exists.
- As we have seen, it is only through the state that society confers rights on individuals; and each state is necessarily a single, particular polity.
- This may confer an added benefit on women, whose families may be reluctant to let them study overseas.
- Finally, has any valuable benefit been conferred on either party?
- They also fear it can easily be coached and thus confer benefits to wealthy applicants.
- Chief among these is the question of whether any benefits were conferred on the generous donors.
- Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty.
- In principle, it is patent rights that confer property rights in innovations.
- It is often assumed that participation in clinical trials confers benefit to patients.
- The first is that the Act is a scheme of social welfare, intended to confer benefits at the public expense on grounds of public policy.
- The ceremony in which SFU will confer the honorary degrees, will be held on the last day of the Dalai Lama's visit.
- Since the law confers this public right, I deprecate any attempt artificially to restrict its scope.
Synonyms bestow on, present with/to, grant to, award to, decorate with, honour with, give to, give out to, gift with, endow with, vest in, hand out to, extend to, vouchsafe to, accord to 2no object Have discussions; exchange opinions. the officials were conferring with allies Example sentencesExamples - He had been talking with some of the other passengers and conferring with them as well.
- Throughout this exchange, Arlene and the little woman were conferring.
- He in turn confers with Geronimo, the local stage tech and they work something out with sidelights.
- He remained on the bridge, constantly conferring with the officer of the deck as the events on the surface unfolded.
- He spent much of his time in the countryside, conferring with party secretaries, cajoling farm chairmen, making promises to the peasants in the kind of earthy language they could understand.
- He made his translation, not conferring with anyone, and brought it to the weekly meeting of the company.
- They are always conferring with each other and chuckling away in a nice little group there, but it is a group that people are going to see as part of a failed Government.
- There on the road, the woman is conferring with Henry.
- For example the scenes of Bobby's grandmother conferring with the psychic at around 70 minutes is very finely detailed.
- ‘After conferring with my colleagues, several of them asked me to run for chair,’ he said.
- They seemed to be conferring amongst themselves, even though they didn't speak aloud.
- I find nothing more satisfying than quietly conferring with other nations to develop a proposal that improves species conservation.
- She asks if there is any hardware in the leg - such as a pin in the hip - confers with the Chinese man, makes a call and sends me back to unit two.
- But the fight was stopped by the referee, after conferring with the ringside physician, at the conclusion of the round.
- I conferred with him where I discussed the problem with lack of disclosure from the officers.
- After conferring with flight controllers and three doctors who happened to be on board, the pilot decided to land in Newfoundland's capital.
- After conferring with the huge arrival board near the wall of windows, she looked over to the crowd of reporters and camera crews surrounding the door.
- He began in Tibetan but quickly switched to English, often conferring with his eloquent translator to confirm his use of words.
- Then there's the party's head of political intelligence, a man with whom the prime minister confers regularly.
- The two CIA agents then conferred, but only parts of their conversation can be heard.
Synonyms consult, have discussions, discuss things, exchange views, talk, have a talk, speak, converse, communicate, have a chat, have a tête-à-tête negotiate, have negotiations, have talks, parley, palaver informal have a confab, chew the fat/rag, jaw, rap, powwow formal confabulate
Derivatives noun kənˈfəːməntkənˈfərmənt mass nounThe granting or bestowal of a title, degree, benefit, or right. the conferment of citizenship was greeted with smiles by the former refugees Example sentencesExamples - The conferment of names upon space is one way in which space becomes place.
- It was the conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough.
- But there are those who are hell-bent upon ensuring he is given perhaps even more credit than he deserves and I have a feeling the conferment of this honour won't be the last.
adjective kɒnˈfəːrəb(ə)lkənˈfərəb(ə)l Blood lines have a beguiling authority not conferrable by votes of the city council. Example sentencesExamples - Although some authors allege otherwise, moral status is not conferrable by persons on nonpersons; it either is or isn't present in a subject, regardless of whether others recognize it.
noun kənˈfəːr(ə)lkənˈfərəl mass nounThe granting or bestowal of a title, degree, benefit, or right. the conferral of degrees to 19 PhD students and 341 undergraduates Example sentencesExamples - The Law Council does not accept such arguments and is vigorously opposed to the conferral on the prosecutorial authorities of such sweeping and arbitrary powers in the characterisation of offences and laying of charges.
- ‘The convention requires the conferral of prisoner of war status unless a competent tribunal decides otherwise,’ the jurists' commission said.
- Colleges try to lure the media to conferrals by having headline names.
Origin Late Middle English (in the general sense 'bring together', also in sense 2): from Latin conferre, from con- 'together' + ferre 'bring'. refer from Late Middle English: Refer comes from Latin referre ‘carry back’, from re- ‘back’ and ferre ‘bring’. Referee dates from the early 17th century, but did not appear in sports contexts until the mid 19th century. Referre is also the source of mid 19th-century referendum from the Latin for ‘referring’. Ferre is the source of numerous words in English including confer ‘bring together’; defer ‘put to one side or away’, which shares an origin with differ; fertile ‘bearing’; and transfer ‘carry across’, all of which came into the language in the Late Middle English period.
Rhymes à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr Definition of confer in US English: conferverbkənˈfərkənˈfər 1with object Grant or bestow (a title, degree, benefit, or right) moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her Example sentencesExamples - As we have seen, it is only through the state that society confers rights on individuals; and each state is necessarily a single, particular polity.
- Is it alcohol or wine in particular that confers these benefits?
- This may confer an added benefit on women, whose families may be reluctant to let them study overseas.
- In principle, it is patent rights that confer property rights in innovations.
- The ceremony in which SFU will confer the honorary degrees, will be held on the last day of the Dalai Lama's visit.
- As a custom, it became regulated by laws that confer rights and impose duties on those who practice it.
- It does not confer a right of property as such nor does it guarantee the content of any rights in property.
- It also shows how the district confers benefits on firms in indirect ways.
- They also fear it can easily be coached and thus confer benefits to wealthy applicants.
- One of the things I found is that just because you pass a law and confer a benefit doesn't mean people know it exists.
- The first is that the Act is a scheme of social welfare, intended to confer benefits at the public expense on grounds of public policy.
- It is the only means of establishing, under law, that the university has a historic power to confer degrees.
- Chief among these is the question of whether any benefits were conferred on the generous donors.
- Since the law confers this public right, I deprecate any attempt artificially to restrict its scope.
- By this very simple definition, we see that law confers rights.
- Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty.
- Those who drafted the Convention have taken pains to confer rights differentially according to a classification process.
- Finally, has any valuable benefit been conferred on either party?
- The use of the loan system confers multiple benefits on the parties concerned.
- It is often assumed that participation in clinical trials confers benefit to patients.
Synonyms bestow on, present to, present with, grant to, award to, decorate with, honour with, give to, give out to, gift with, endow with, vest in, hand out to, extend to, vouchsafe to, accord to 2no object Have discussions; exchange opinions. the officials were conferring with allies Example sentencesExamples - I find nothing more satisfying than quietly conferring with other nations to develop a proposal that improves species conservation.
- He spent much of his time in the countryside, conferring with party secretaries, cajoling farm chairmen, making promises to the peasants in the kind of earthy language they could understand.
- The two CIA agents then conferred, but only parts of their conversation can be heard.
- He remained on the bridge, constantly conferring with the officer of the deck as the events on the surface unfolded.
- After conferring with flight controllers and three doctors who happened to be on board, the pilot decided to land in Newfoundland's capital.
- They seemed to be conferring amongst themselves, even though they didn't speak aloud.
- I conferred with him where I discussed the problem with lack of disclosure from the officers.
- He began in Tibetan but quickly switched to English, often conferring with his eloquent translator to confirm his use of words.
- Throughout this exchange, Arlene and the little woman were conferring.
- He in turn confers with Geronimo, the local stage tech and they work something out with sidelights.
- For example the scenes of Bobby's grandmother conferring with the psychic at around 70 minutes is very finely detailed.
- They are always conferring with each other and chuckling away in a nice little group there, but it is a group that people are going to see as part of a failed Government.
- Then there's the party's head of political intelligence, a man with whom the prime minister confers regularly.
- He had been talking with some of the other passengers and conferring with them as well.
- After conferring with the huge arrival board near the wall of windows, she looked over to the crowd of reporters and camera crews surrounding the door.
- ‘After conferring with my colleagues, several of them asked me to run for chair,’ he said.
- He made his translation, not conferring with anyone, and brought it to the weekly meeting of the company.
- She asks if there is any hardware in the leg - such as a pin in the hip - confers with the Chinese man, makes a call and sends me back to unit two.
- But the fight was stopped by the referee, after conferring with the ringside physician, at the conclusion of the round.
- There on the road, the woman is conferring with Henry.
Synonyms consult, have discussions, discuss things, exchange views, talk, have a talk, speak, converse, communicate, have a chat, have a tête-à-tête
Origin Late Middle English (in the general sense ‘bring together’, also in confer (sense 2)): from Latin conferre, from con- ‘together’ + ferre ‘bring’. |