Conferring

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

Tom is conferring with Mary.

Reconsidering the "coincidences" of the past twenty-four hours which had kept him from conferring with Chen-Smith he decided the genuineness of the manuscript was a key factor.

He had the magical gift of wringing a hundred pounds from a plutocrat with the air of conferring a graceful favour.

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.