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noun

conference

CEFR B2

a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)

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Six example sentences with conference, each labelled with its topic.

  • Three hundred suppliers flew to Lisbon for a two-day conference with printed schedules and eleven panels on shipping delays.

    Business

  • Surgeons present their hardest cases each Thursday at a conference where colleagues question every decision before the room votes.

    Medicine

  • The kernel maintainers met at a conference in Prague, where six months of mailing-list arguments were finally settled in one afternoon.

    Technology

  • Delegates from thirty countries gathered at the conference, with a printed agenda that gave each border dispute an afternoon.

    Politics

  • She presented her results at a conference in Kyoto, and a question from the back row reshaped her next experiment.

    Science

  • The founders booked a booth at the conference, hoping to meet buyers between sessions on payment fraud.

    Startups

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