Conferring

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who confers.

    "His critics ask him if he expects to prevent the conferees in the Conference from talking to one another in the Metropolitan Club and from then coming to the Conference's open sessions merely to register the results of their secret conferrings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of confer form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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presentation

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"After conferring for several hours, they made the agreements public."

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