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Confer With

Definition: Confer With

Confer With

Verb

1. Get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Confer With

Synonym: consult (v). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Confer With

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Conversation	Discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Confer With

Specialty definitions using "confer with": area specialist, assistant camera operator, AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT ENGINEER-TECHNICIAN ♦ BREWING DIRECTOR, brewing superintendent, BUSINESS-ENTERPRISE OFFICER ♦ CHIEF CLERK, PRINT SHOP, CONTESTANT COORDINATOR, CORRESPONDENCE-REVIEW CLERK ♦ engineer, automated equipment ♦ FIELD REPRESENTATIVE, FORMS ANALYST ♦ HEAD ♦ -head ♦ HOUSE MOVER ♦ MANAGER, ADVERTISING AGENCY, MANAGER, CEMETERY, MANAGER, REAL-ESTATE FIRM, MATERIAL-HANDLING SUPERVISOR ♦ OPTICAL-EFFECTS LAYOUT PERSON, optical-effects-line-up person ♦ PACKAGING ENGINEER, process inspector, public-relations practitioner, PUBLIC-RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE ♦ SALES REPRESENTATIVE, SIGNS AND DISPLAYS, stock supervisor, superintendent, cemetery, SUPERINTENDENT, MAINTENANCE ♦ technician, automated equipment, traffic supervisor ♦ warehouse supervisor. (references)

Photo Album: Confer With

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	Calvin H. McGhee and two women of the Creek Nation, confer with President John F. Kennedy, outside the White House. Credit: Library of Congress.		Field Marshall Smuts and Victoria Cross Winner. Latest official photograph of Field Marshall J.C. Smuts, currently in London to confer with British Prime Minister Churchill on the conduct of the war. He is shown in his office at Union Building, Pretoria,. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Use in Literature: Confer With

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	He listened in silence, and finally promised to confer with the physician.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Did you confer with him?
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Non-Fiction Usage: Confer With

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Turkey	Under the Criminal Code, those detained for individual common crimes are entitled to immediate access to an attorney and may meet and confer with an attorney at any time. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J.
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Expression: Confer With

Expression using "confer with": confer with smb. on smth.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Confer With

Language		Translations for "confer with"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		rokovat s kým o èem (confer with smb. on smth.). (various references)

Hungarian		vkivel (compeer, have a tiff with sy, have tea with sy, to agree, to be gracious to sy, to be plain with sy, to call cousin with sy, to cheek sy, to come to loggerheads with sy, to confer with sy, to cope, to do a deal with sy, to enter into collusion with sy, to fix an appointment with sy, to get down on sy, to give sy a fair deal, to go hand in hand with sg, to happen in with sy, to happen on sy, to introduce sy to a process, to keep house together with sy, to kid sy that, to lead sy a dance, to lead sy on, to lead sy up the garden path, to make an appointment with sy, to play fast and loose with sy, to play hob with sy, to play sy fair, to put sy through to sy, to rush sy round the sights, to screw around with sy, to send sy up the garden path, to treat sy according to his merits, to try a fall with sy, to turn the cold shoulder to sy), tanácskozik vkivel (to commune together sy, to commune with sy, to confer with sy, to take counsel with sy), tárgyal (heard, negotiate, to broker, to confer, to confer with sy, to discuss, to hear, to negotiate, to palaver), eszmecserét folytat vkivel (to confer with sy), értekezik vkivel (to confer with sy). (various references)

Italian		conferire (award, bestow, confer, give). (various references)

Pig Latin		onfercay ithway

Russian		совещаться (confer, deliberate, hold a consultation, lay up heads together, powwow). (various references)

Swedish		rådgöra med (consult with). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Confer With

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-h-i-n-o-r-t-w"
	-2 letters: infector.
	-3 letters: chorine, cithern, cithren, coinfer, cointer, conifer, cowrite, crownet, fitchew, forwent, notcher, noticer, wincher, writhen.
	-4 letters: chiton, cither, citron, coheir, coiner, confer, confit, cornet, cortin, cowier, cowrie, cretin, enrich, erotic, ethion, ethnic, fetich, forint, french, hector, heriot, heroic, heroin, hinter, hornet, infect, noetic, norite, nother, notice, orcein, orient, recoin, richen, rochet, rotche.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album

5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern

9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography

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