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      "\u02c8k\u0251nfr\u0259ns",
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      "From Middle French conf\u00e9rence, from Medieval Latin c\u014dnferentia, from Latin c\u014dnfer\u0113ns."
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            "mean": "The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.\n1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, \u201cThe Tragedie of Iulius C\u00e6sar\u201d, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :Nor with such free and friendly conference / As he hath used of old."
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            "mean": "(politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation."
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            "mean": "(sciences) A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means."
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            "mean": "(business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers."
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            "mean": "(sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis."
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            "mean": "(Philippines, sports) A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.\n1594\u20131597, Richard Hooker, edited by J S, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie,\u00a0, London:    Will Stansby , published 1611, \u2192OCLC, (please specify the page):helps and furtherances which    the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford"
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            "mean": "(Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters."
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            "mean": "A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are."
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            "mean": "(transitive, intransitive, education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.\n2009, Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom:The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2."
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