Conference Held Noun ˈkɒnfərəns ˈkɑːnfərəns Hotel Exhibitions Social

• the hotel is used for exhibitions, conferences and social events.
• to host/organize a conference
• to speak at/address a conference
• the conference will be held in glasgow.

conference

1. a large official meeting, usually lasting for a few days, at which people with the same work or interests come together to discuss their views
• The hotel is used for exhibitions, conferences and social events.
• to host/organize a conference
• to speak at/address a conference
• The conference will be held in Glasgow.
• Delegates to the Labour Party's annual conference will be staying in the Grand Hotel.
• the national conference of the American Psychiatric Association
• We met at an international conference.
• The resolution will be debated at the party conference in Brighton.
• She is attending a three-day conference on AIDS education.
• a conference for health professionals from around the world
• a conference room/centre

Extra Examples

• The conference adopted a resolution on minority rights.
• The conference agreed to adopt a set of compromise proposals.
• The conference brought together historians working in a variety of fields.
• The conference featured a keynote address by one of our most eminent scientists.
• The conference heard an appeal from a representative from one of the more deprived areas.
• The party leader made a morale-boosting speech from the conference platform.
• a conference devoted to the topic of peace
• a conference entitled ‘Strategies for Epidemic Control’
• a conference examining cross-border cooperation
• a conference for catering managers
• a conference on economic aid
• an inter-governmental conference examining cross-border cooperation
• The meeting was held in a conference centre in Birmingham.
2. a meeting at which people have formal discussions
• SEE ALSO press conference
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/press-conference
• They agreed to convene a peace conference by mid-November.
• Her working day consists of conferences with foreign diplomats.
• He was in conference with his lawyers all day.
• Ministers from all four countries involved will meet at the conference table this week.

Extra Examples

• Management had a joint conference with the union.
• a conference between the warring parties
• He scheduled a conference for the following week to discuss what should happen next.
3. a group of sports teams that play against each other in a league
• Southeast Conference football champions

Word Origin

• early 16th cent. (in the general sense ‘conversation, talk’): from French conférence or medieval Latin conferentia, from Latin conferre ‘bring together’, from con- ‘together’ + ferre ‘bring’.