conference

Noun
  1. is a type of: group meeting, meeting - a formally arranged gathering
    subtypes:
    • symposium - a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations
    • seminar - any meeting for an exchange of ideas
    • colloquium - an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
    specific instances:
    • potsdam conference - a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended
    • yalta conference - a conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
    member holonym: conferee - a member of a conference
  2. is a type of: association - a formal organization of people or groups of people
    subtypes:
    same as: league
  3. is a type of: discussion, give-and-take, word - an exchange of views on some topic
    subtypes:
    • bull session - an informal discussion (usually among men)
    • colloquy - a conversation especially a formal one
    • consultation - a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question
    • audience, consultation, interview - a conference (usually with someone important)
    • huddle, powwow - (informal) a quick private conference
    • news conference, press conference - a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity
    • pretrial, pretrial conference - (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases
    • round table, round-table conference, roundtable - a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views
    • session - a meeting for execution of a group's functions
    • teach-in - an extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issue
    • teleconference, teleconferencing - a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television
    same as: group discussion

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