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A conference is a formal get-together where people talk (or "confer") about a chosen topic, like when your office holds a conference to talk about the problem of snoring during meetings.
A conference can also be a public meeting arranged for discussion, such as a press conference or a national conference for a particular group. For example, you may no longer have much interest in 18th-century coins, but you still attend the annual conference for coin collectors because it is always held at a hotel in Aruba. A conference can also refer to a sports league, such as for baseball or football.
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a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)examples:Potsdam Conferencea conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II endedYalta Conferencea conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europetypes:symposiuma meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentationsseminarany meeting for an exchange of ideascolloquiuman academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meetingresearch colloquiuma colloquium at which the results of (scientific) research are reportedtype of:
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a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topicsynonyms: group discussiontypes:bull sessionan informal discussion (usually among men)colloquya conversation especially a formal oneconsultationa conference between two or more people to consider a particular questionnews conference, press conferencea conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebritypretrial, 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; more useful in civil than in criminal casesround table, round-table conference, roundtablea meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of viewssessiona meeting for execution of a group's functionsteach-inan extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issueteleconference, teleconferencinga conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit televisionsidebar(law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearingbackgroundera press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policysittinga session as of a legislature or courtclinicmeeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activityclosed session, executive sessiona session (usually of a legislative body) that is closed to the publichearinga session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is takenskull sessiona session (as of executives or advisors) to discuss policy or strategy or to solve problems or exchange ideasspecial sessiona session that is held in addition to the regular sessionstutoriala session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of studentstype of:
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an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its memberssynonyms: leaguetypes:bush league, minor league, minorsa league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)baseball leaguea league of baseball teamsbasketball leaguea league of basketball teamsbowling leaguea league of bowling teamsfootball leaguea league of football teamshockey leaguea league of hockey teamsIvy Leaguea league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestigelittle leaguea commercially sponsored baseball league for players between 8 and 12 years of agetype of:associationa formal organization of people or groups of people
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