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单词 confer
释义
confer
verb
uk
/kənˈfɜːr/us
/kənˈfɝː/
-rr-

conferverb(TALK)

[I]
toexchangeideason aparticularsubject, often inordertoreachadecisionon whatactionto take:
（常指为达成行动决议而）商讨，商议，协商
I need sometimeto conferwithmylawyer.我想花点时间跟我的律师商量一下。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to talk to someone
  • talkA group of men were talking in the street.
  • speakCould I speak to you privately?
  • sayI couldn't hear what they were saying.
  • chatWe were just chatting about the party.
  • have a chatWe had a little chat over the garden wall.
  • chatterThey spent the morning chattering away.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Debate & discussion
  • agent provocateur
  • bargainer
  • bat
  • bat around
  • broker
  • closure
  • cloture
  • consult
  • dialogue
  • discursive
  • parley
  • polarized
  • polemic
  • polemical
  • post-debate
  • powwow
  • provocateur
  • re-explore
  • sophistry
  • talk turkeyidiom
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conferverb(GIVE)

[T]
to give anofficialtitle,honour, oradvantageto someone:
授予（称号、荣誉）；赋予（优势）
Anhonorarydoctoratewas conferredonhim by Columbia University.哥伦比亚大学授予他荣誉博士学位。
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to give something to someone
  • giveGive me that dirty plate.
  • offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
  • provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
  • supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
  • donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Giving, providing and supplying
  • accommodate
  • accord
  • administer
  • administration
  • assignment
  • award
  • hand off
  • handsomethingin
  • handsomethingout
  • handsomethingover
  • handsomethinground
  • invest
  • lay
  • passing
  • reassignment
  • rebid
  • regift
  • reprovision
  • resource
  • spare
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(Definition ofconferfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

confer| American Dictionary

confer
verb
us
/kənˈfɜr/
-rr-

conferverb(TALK)

[I]
totalktogether andexchangeideas, often with theintentionofreachingadecisionabout something:
I need to confer with mylawyer.

conferverb(GIVE)

[T]
to give anhonor,officialtitle, orabilityto someone:
The US Constitution conferscertainpowerson thepresident.
(Definition ofconferfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

confer| Business English

confer
verb[I]
uk
/kənˈfɜːr/us
-rr-
todiscusssomething with somebody, often inordertoreachadecisionabout whatactionto take:
confer about sthThey were inconstantcontact, conferring about everyaspectof theconstructionproject.
confer with sbWeaskedfor sometimeto confer withouradvisers.
(Definition ofconferfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconfer

confer
Secondly, were these effects present only in the years that were construed as conferring mandates?
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The congressional response to the three elections conferring a mandate is ephemeral.
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However, any benefits conferred by this treatment are likely to be short-term.
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On both accounts, special religious status is conferred unrelated to the deserts of the beneficiary.
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In both instances, the orientation of the underlying matrix fibers is conferred to the astrocytic processes.
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Accordingly, my case for conferring on the sick rights to the organs of the dead has two steps.
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The counsellors probe for further details before conferring as a group to consider possible courses of action.
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Who confers value on us without caring for us in the way that we care for friends, family, and sometimes members of larger human communities?
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Functional questions address the benefits conferred, at present, by a behavior, while evolutionary questions address the evolutionary history of a behavior.
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Such citizenship conferred the right to participate fully in economic life and conferred a number of political rights and privileges.
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The first group of 169 women was made up of those without a known factor conferring high risk on the pregnancy.
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Even when a specific individual imposed prohibitive agreements on the community, it was the people who punished violators, not the one who conferred the agreement.
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Once more the architectural specialists looked at the designs without conferring, and again found themselves arguing essentially the same case.
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The antigen specificity is conferred by the murine variable domain.
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Pleiotropy and the evolution of genetic systems conferring resistance to pesticides.
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