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conference

[kon-fer-uhns, -fruhns] / ˈkɒn fər əns, -frəns /


NOUN
league of athletic teams
Synonyms


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The Bruins have not appeared in a Rose Bowl game since 1999, at the end of a season in which they won their last conference championship.

From Los Angeles Times

On Tuesday 4 November, the chancellor called an extraordinary pre-Budget news conference.

From BBC

Attention now shifts to the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo meeting and a work conference focused on economic affairs later this month.

From The Wall Street Journal

The path to this weekend's founding conference has been overshadowed by splits in the party over everything from money, leadership to even its name.

From BBC

Either way, the hodgepodge of conferences we have today is antiquated, a relic of a broken cable TV model.

From The Wall Street Journal