CONFER meaning: Grant or bestow a benefit

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word confer:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

confer: Merriam-Webster.com
confer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
confer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
confer: Collins English Dictionary
confer: Vocabulary.com
Confer, confer: Wordnik
confer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Confer, confer: Wiktionary
confer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
confer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
confer: Infoplease Dictionary
Confer, confer: Dictionary.com
confer: Online Etymology Dictionary
confer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
CONFER (software), Confer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Confer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
confer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
confer: Rhymezone
confer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
confer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
confer: Free Dictionary
confer: Mnemonic Dictionary
confer: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

confer: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

confer, confer, confer: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
CONFER: Acronym Finder
confer: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

confer: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

confer: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To compare.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

bestow, see, consult, confab, confabulate, cf, see also, show, grant, afford, more...

Opposite:

withhold, deny, refuse, reject, disallow

Types:

conference, symposium, seminar, workshop, lecture, panel, discussion, debate, more...

Phrases:

confer with, confer on, meet and confer, confer tree, consensus confer, more...

Adjectives:

first, latin, international, annual, and, best, own, such, national, several, private

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