CONFERRING Synonyms

• capable of or involving speech or speaking

• the utterance of intelligible speech

• delivering an address to a public audience

• capable of speech

• an exchange of ideas via conversation

• work together on a common enterprise or project

• cooperate as a traitor

• unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• have a conference in order to talk something over

• get or ask advice from

• seek information from

• have a conference in order to talk something over

• advise professionally

• a proposition obtained by conversion

• of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other

• turned about in order or relation

• carry on a conversation

• a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal

• the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)

• argue with one another

• think about carefully; weigh

• discuss the pros and cons of an issue

• have an argument about something

• carefully thought out in advance

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• characterized by conscious design or purpose

• think about carefully; weigh

• discuss the pros and cons of an issue

• to consider or examine in speech or writing

• speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion

• chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another

• a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)

• the act of changing one thing for another thing

• the act of giving something in return for something received

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

• a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)

• the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:

• (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop

• (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value

• give to, and receive from, one another

• exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent

• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

• exchange a penalty for a less severe one

• discuss the terms of an arrangement

• succeed in passing through, around, or over

• a negotiation between enemies

• discuss, as between enemies

• (informal) a quick private conference

• a council of or with Native Americans

• hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting

• be able to spare or give up

• be the cause or source of

• have the financial means to do something or buy something

• afford access to

• present

• give as a gift

• bestow a quality on

• an informal conversation

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• have a conference in order to talk something over

• unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• have a conference in order to talk something over

• get or ask advice from

• seek information from

• have a conference in order to talk something over

• advise professionally