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conference
noun assembly, colloquy, conclave, confabulation, consultation, consultation meeting, conversations, convocation, deliberation, dialogue, discussion, exchange, forum, gathering, interchange of opinions, interlocution, meeting, negotiation, negotiations, palaver, parlance, parley, premeditation, seminar, talksSee also: assemblage, assembly, caucus, collective bargaining, communication, company, confrontation, congregation, council, discourse, inquiry, interview, negotiation, panel, parlance, parley, session
CONFERENCE, practice, legislation. In practice, it is the meeting of the
parties or their attorneys in a cause, for the purpose of endeavoring to
settle the same.
2. In legislation, when the senate and house of representatives cannot
agree on a bill or resolution which it is desirable should be passed,
committees are appointed by the two bodies respectively, who are called
committees of conference, and whose duty it is, if possible, to -reconcile
the differences between them.
3. In the French law, this term is used to signify the similarity and
comparison between two laws, or two systems of law; as the Roman and the
common law. Encyclopedie, h.t.
4. In diplomacy, conferences are verbal explanations between ministers
of two nations at least, for the purpose of accelerating various
difficulties and delays, necessarily attending written communications.