Definition of Conference

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Conference

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.

A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.

A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.

A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.

A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

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Conference Quotations

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
William Glasser

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
Richard M. Nixon

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
Maurice Strong

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back."
Sophia Loren

Conference Translations

conference in Dutch is conferentie
conference in German is Konferenz
conference in Italian is congresso
conference in Spanish is conferencia
conference in Swedish is konferens

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