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confer

verb

1 confer

Have a conference in order to talk something over:
— We conferred about a plan of action.

synonyms: confab, confabulate, consult.

Roget 695: advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice [Fr.]; suggest, prompt, submonish, recommend, prescribe, advocate; exhort etc. (persuade) ... show more

Roget 696: assemble, gather together, meet (assemblage) 72; confer, caucus, hold council; huddle [Coll.].   

Dutch: overleggen

2 confer

Present:
— The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated.

synonym: bestow.

Roget 784: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.    present, give away, dispense, dispose of; ... show more

Dutch: toedelen, toestaan, verlenen


Moby thesaurus: abalienate, accord, administer, advise, advise with, advocate, afford, alien, alienate, allot, allow, amortize, argue, assign, award, bargain, barter, bequeath, bestow, bestow on ... show more.

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