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conferring
| Main Entry: |
conferring
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | holding a conference |
| Synonyms: | consulting, conversing, counseling, deliberating, discussing, meeting, talking |
| Main Entry: | confer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | giving honor, award |
| Synonyms: | accord, allot, award, bestow, donate, gift with, give, grant, lay on, present, provide, sweeten the kitty, vouchsafe |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, taking |
| Main Entry: | conference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, colloquium |
| Synonyms: | appointment, argument, chat, colloquy, confabulation, conferring, congress, consultation, conversation, convocation, deliberation, discussion, forum, gabfest, groupthink, huddle, interchange, interview, meeting, palaver, parley, powwow, round robin, round table, seminar, symposium, talk, think-in, ventilation |
| Main Entry: | giving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bestowing |
| Synonyms: | allowing, awarding, bequeathing, ceding, conferring, contributing, conveying, dispensing, distributing, doling out, donating, endowing, expending, furnishing, granting, handing out, imparting, offering, passing out, permitting, presenting, remitting, supplying, transferring, yielding |
| Antonyms: | appropriating, getting, taking |
| Main Entry: | negotiating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transacting |
| Synonyms: | bargaining, conferring, trading |
| Main Entry: | rap session |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conference |
| Synonyms: | appointment, argument, chat, colloquium, colloquy, confabulation, conferring, congress, consultation, conversation, convocation, deliberation, discussion, forum, gabfest, groupthink, huddle, interchange, interview, meeting, palaver*, parley, powwow, round robin, round table, seminar, symposium, talk, think-in, ventilation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accord |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give approval, grant |
| Synonyms: | accede, acquiesce, admit, allow, award, bestow, concede, confer, endow, give, present, render, tender, vouchsafe |
| Notes: | something (a quality) is in accord with something else; something acts in accordance with something else (an activity) |
| Antonyms: | argue, challenge, deny, disallow, disapprove, oppose, question, refuse, withhold |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make request, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | accost, address, advise, appeal to, apply to, beseech, confer, consult, entreat, feel, feel one out, give a play, give a tumble, greet, implore, make advance, make overture, make up to, plead, propose, sound out, speak to, supplicate, take aside, talk to, thumb, tumble |
| Main Entry: | award |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give prize or reward |
| Synonyms: | accord, adjudge, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, concede, confer, decree, dish out, distribute, donate, endow, fork out, gift, grant, hand out, present, render, reward, shell out, sweeten the kitty |
| Notes: | an award is something awarded or granted, as for merit; a reward is something given or received in recompense for worthy behavior or in retribution for evil acts |
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