Conferment

Definition: Conferment

Conferment

Noun

1. The act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift.

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

Synonyms: Conferment

Books

• Wind of the spirit : a retrospective exhibition of Brother Joseph McNally : an exhibition to commemorate the conferment of the Meritorious Service Medal on Brother Joseph McNally for his outstanding achievements as an artist, cultural activist and educato (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

të dhëna (account, data, evidence, information, input, particular, record, records), dhënie (administration, allocation, assignation, award, cession, dispensation, disposal, distribution, donation, grant, issue, presentation, settlement). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منحة (awarding, bestowal, donation, endowment, giving, granting, presenting), ‏تشاور (confer, conference, consult, consultation, counsel, deliberation, go into a huddle), ‏إنعام (gift). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оказване (accordance, rendering), присъждане (adjudication, award). (various references)

Czech

udìlení (bestowal, grant). (various references)

Farsi 

تفویض (Investiture, Resignation, Submission), اعطاء (Concession). (various references)

Finnish

promootio (commencement, conferment of degrees, degree ceremony), maisterinvihkiäiset (conferment of masters' degrees, degree ceremony). (various references)

French

remise, octroi. (various references)

German

verleihung (award, awarding, bestowal, bestowment, enfranchisement, hire, hiring, investiture, investment, lending, lending out, loan, loaning, presentation, rental, renting), Übertragung (devolvement, propagation, translation, transmission, transmittal). (various references)

Greek 

απονομή (allotment, dispensation). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"ע� ק�" (bestowal, bonus, endowment, grant, gratuity, presentation). (various references)

Hungarian

adományozás (bestowal, conference, dispensation, grant), átruházás (assignation, assignment, cession, conveyance, delegation, demise, devolution, grant, livery, transfer). (various references)

Italian

conferimento (charter, concession, contribution, franchise, grant, licence). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

授与 (award). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じゅよ (award). (various references)

Manx

stowal (bestow, bestowal, confer, decorate, stow), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), bronney (confer). (various references)

Pig Latin

onfermentcay

Portuguese

concessão (accordance, allotment, allowance, award, bestowal, concession, franchise, lease), outorga (bestowal, grant, grant-in-aid, issuance, outlet). (various references)

Russian 

присвоение звания, присвоение (appropriation, assignment, assumption). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dodeljivanje (allotment, bestowal). (various references)

Spanish

otorgamiento (allowance, bestowal, grant). (various references)

Swedish

utdelande (distributive), förlänande. (various references)

Turkish

verme (evolution, lodgment, rendering, supply), bahşetme (endowment), ödüllendirme. (various references)

Ukrainian

присудження (award), присво�"ння. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phong tước, sự ban tước. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conferment": conferments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conferment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenerente, conferments, confirmant, conforment. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: contemner.

-2 letters: cretonne, fomenter.

-3 letters: centner, contemn, enforce, enteron, ferment, foremen, oftener, tenoner.

-4 letters: cement, cenote, center, centre, cermet, confer, conner, cornet, emoter, encore, fencer, fennec, foemen, foment, formee, mentor, meteor, moreen, nocent, recent, refect, remote, rennet, tenner, tenrec, toneme, tonner.

-5 letters: cento, comer, comet, comte, conte, creme, croft, crone, emote, enorm, enter, erect, fence.

+1 letter: conferments, enforcement.

+2 letters: enforcements.

+3 letters: reinforcement.

+4 letters: nonenforcement, reinforcements.

+5 letters: nonenforcements.