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conferring

/kuhn-fur/US // kənˈfɜr //UK // (kənˈfɜː) //

赋予,授予,召开会议,赋予了

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·ferred, con·fer·ring.

    • : to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·ferred, con·fer·ring.

    • : to bestow upon as a gift, favor, honor, etc.: to confer a degree on a graduate.
    • : Obsolete. to compare.

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Examples

  • If there are any valid objections, the House and Senate withdraw to confer separately.

  • Lindstrom also conferred with Pohl, the chief of the core lab.

  • Reducing personnel or changing employee working conditions are often subject to so-called “meet and confer” negotiations with labor union representatives.

  • Earlier this week, he spoke approvingly of the rate of spread, given that it, too, confers immunity.

  • If a vaccine can confer long-lasting immunity, on the order of years to decades, widespread community transmission around the globe could cease, he says.

  • One evening, they found Sanjay and his friends “conferring” with two women in a hotel room near the slum.

  • Various countries are conferring about how to solve that problem.

  • Pinault, gray-flannelled and black-shoed, was conferring at the next-door table with an adviser, Philippe Segalot.

  • The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.

  • But they went slowly, with much half-whispered, sullen conferring and many a backward glance at Marius and those with him.

  • In 1855 Congress passed an act conferring citizenship on alien women who should marry American citizens.

  • That could not be entered into without conferring that obligation on all the parties represented at its formation.

  • She could not but love one upon whom she was conferring such rich blessings.