Usually means: Gathering for discussion, networking, learning.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word conference:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. conference: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Conference, conference: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conference: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conference: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conference: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conference, conference: Wordnik
  7. conference: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Conference, conference: Wiktionary
  9. conference: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conference: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conference: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. conference: Dictionary.com
  13. conference: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Conference (sports), Conference: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Conference: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. conference: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. conference: Rhymezone
  18. conference: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. conference: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. conference: Free Dictionary
  21. conference: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. conference: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Conference (disambiguation), conference: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Conference (disambiguation), conference: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conference: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
noun:  (politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
noun:  (sciences) A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
noun:  (business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
noun:  (sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
noun:  (Philippines, sports) A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
noun:  (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
noun:  A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
noun:  An autumn cultivar of the European pear Pyrus communis.

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