CONFERENCE


Meaning of CONFERENCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a conference centre

Westgate Hotel has sixty bedrooms and a conference centre.

a party conference

He will give a speech at the Tory party conference this morning.

a peace conference

Will the US be sending a delegate to the Middle East peace conference?

address a meeting/conference etc

He addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.

annual report/meeting/conference

conference call

held...press conference

The Green Party held a press conference the next day.

news conference

The chairman told a news conference that some members of staff would lose their jobs.

press conference

The Green Party held a press conference the next day.

sporting/conference/concert etc venue

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

annual

His announcement at the annual conference of the Association of Children's Reporters in Peebles received an immediate welcome from childcare agencies.

An annual black communications conference was instituted to debate issues and encourage black recruitment by the networks and major publications.

Waldegrave threw out the challenge to the physics community last week at the annual conference of the Institute of Physics in Brighton.

Gabbidon is calling for directors to support an annual or biennial conference for these women and staff.

Agriculture Department said Friday at its annual outlook conference .

The Institute of Water and Environmental Management will be holding its annual conference concurrently.

Friday's announcement came at the association's annual conference in Orlando, Fla.

conservative

More societies are expected to announce mortgage rate increases during the Conservative Party conference this week.

As I said at the Conservative party conference , I want to make it clear that our policy is colour blind.

The Prime Minister and other ministers are expected to attend a Conservative conference in Cheltenham next spring.

For instance, the Home Secretary is regularly criticised for leniency on such issues from this lobby at the Conservative Party conferences .

They want the Prime Minister to use the Conservative Party conference next week to slap down this turbulent priest.

Mr Parkinson is to defend the Government's stand at the Conservative Party conference next week.

For the first time there will be a creche for children of representatives at the Conservative conference .

Last week at the Conservative conference Mr Howard said prison life should not be a picnic.

international

Michael made a good recovery, and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement.

Lawyers, politicians and environmentalists have called for such action at an international conference in London organized by Greenpeace.

In recent years Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh has been closely involved in the organisation of international seminars and conferences .

It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference .

His proposals also called for an international peace conference on the Middle East.

Active planning and discussion of an international conference occupied the early months of 1944.

In this situation an international socialist conference demanding peace short of victory would not be at all helpful.

joint

Joint concluding press conference At their joint concluding press conference on June 3 the two leaders pronounced their summit a success.

On June 3 they held a joint news conference .

It is the first time aviation experts and the rescue services have held a joint conference on the importance of working together.

They should have held a joint conference .

labour

Some things never change at a Labour conference .

It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote.

Morris had once done as much at a Labour Party conference in Blackpool.

They've lobbied every Labour conference since 84.

Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media's industry hacks at the Labour party conference .

Who cast a shadow over the Labour conference by quitting the Shadow Cabinet? 2.

They were at the Labour Party conference together last year and that's when it began.

national

At a national conference I met a woman convenor of a local group of refuse collectors; she had ten children.

Tshisekedi had refused to accept ministers from outside the national conference .

The question of whether a national conference should be held was reportedly also under discussion.

They advocated an immediate end to military rule and the holding of a national conference of all political forces.

Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first.

The national conference will bring together chairmen and chief executives of business partnerships, City Challenges and TECs.

The reforms will have to be passed by the national conference where they will face considerable opposition.

Any appointments made by Tshisekedi would need to be ratified by the national conference .

recent

Much of the discussion at recent conferences has been on the recession and how hard it is hitting the industry.

The awards were given during a recent engineers' conference .

tory

Chancellor Nigel Lawson's Tory conference speech had little impact.

Less than 2 weeks ago, Mr Heseltine had the party faithful squirming with delight at the Tory Party conference .

Their warnings came amid bleak forecasts that sterling will plunge to a new low during this week's Tory conference at Brighton.

And they clearly hope to get them down further before the Tory conference next month.

A Tory conference probably has more than its due share of savers.

Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference .

The strong integrationist call dominates two-thirds of the 37 resolutions on Northern Ireland affairs submitted for next month's Tory conference .

■ NOUN

call

Voters expecting to meet him were asked instead to watch a video and listen to a telephone conference call .

The next afternoon at three, the conference call goes through.

Participants in the conference call included Gingrich, other Republican leaders, and one of his lawyers, former Rep.

Public disclosure of the conference call has sparked a political firestorm.

The Times published excerpts from the conference call on Friday.

Video links were set up in Tucson and Phoenix for family therapy conference calls .

The conference call has been rearranged for later in the week.

A conference call was arranged, and the three founders gathered at the tiny office.

case

It should be noted, however, that this case was decided when parental attendance at case conferences was rare.

He is also concerned about the low take-up of conducting case conferences by telephone.

A case conference should consider what will happen in the future if violence occurs.

However, case conferences are not just a forum for professional decision making.

A special case conference was held in 1986 because he was not thriving as he should have done.

No multi-disciplinary case conferences were held prior to these children being taken from their homes.

The resident should be advised of the reasons for the case conference and the result.

centre

Meanwhile, Unix System Labs has negotiated a Unix showcase area squat at the front door of the conference centre .

But the playroom is to be absorbed into the retreat and conference centre next year.

Ideally situated close to the town and conference centre , on the Brighton border and just off the seafront.

Around the conference centre , the party rocks on with blithe disregard for the economic and political turbulence beyond.

The conference centre contained one of the main entrances to the bunker.

Size of conference centre 194 points 4.

Located in a perfect position close to the seafront, entertainment, town centre and conference centre.

They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre .

facility

We carried out a survey to determine how buyers of conference facilities selected venues.

With conference facilities to cater up to 300 people.

Of the local hotels 11 have conference facilities .

It will also provide additional conference facilities which have become so important to College income.

It is a two storey structure which contains conference facilities and computer facilities for the University as a whole.

The Leofric is also marketing its conference facilities aggressively.

hall

He arrived at the conference hall after having a Campaign Group leaflet thrust into his hand.

A conference hall for the under elevens.

Their debate on Labour's plight rages far above the brawling oratory in the conference hall .

Unfettered loyalty inside the conference hall .

Anyway, at last night's show in a Wembley conference hall , there was only one contestant.

Heartened by this exchange, Joshua re-entered the conference hall just as Norman Tebbit was getting to his feet.

A programme is not just what happens in the conference hall .

news

Fujimori and Montesinos held what turned out to be a fateful news conference on August 21.

Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, in a taped statement broadcast at the news conference .

She later closed the news conference with a song she made up.

At the news conference , Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.

On June 3 they held a joint news conference .

D., said at a news conference also attended by Sens.

The news conference in the state building was arranged by Sen.

peace

This first session dealt mainly with co-operation between the two countries at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference .

It was hoped that a formal accord would be signed at a national multiparty peace conference on Sept. 14.

The peace conference in Madrid seems to me to subsume all past resolutions.

In his view peace conferences were a waste of time; the old elm had outlived its usefulness.

Because of international insistence on it, Resolution 242 is undoubtedly the entry ticket to an international peace conference .

During his visits Baker attempted, unsuccessfully, to arrange a regional Middle East peace conference .

And he could gain much at a peace conference , without having to fight for it.

press

Not even glasnost and all its press conferences could change that.

Its cameras followed the candidates around on the campaign, showing unabridged speeches, press conferences , walkabouts.

There is no better example of journalism as part of the show than the press conference .

After Clarke was sentenced, Jonathan's family held a press conference , begging others to stay away from drugs.

A Treasury spokesman said there was no need to hold a press conference with every rate change.

It was seventeen hours later, on Wednesday morning, that Landless held his own press conference .

One difference: He disclosed those deals loudly, in very public press conferences .

room

They get summoned into the conference room .

Project team members will rent hotel conference rooms for the duration of the project, working on portable computers and call-forwarding.

Behind the elegant partitions, leading to our private conference rooms , something roars.

For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.

It has a wide variety of rooms and ten well appointed conference rooms.

The meeting took place a few days later in a hotel conference room .

Large sliding doors open from the oak-floored corridor in the pavilion into the conference rooms .

The massage takes place in conference rooms , where employees relax in massage chairs.

table

The Doctor was hovering above the conference table in the classic lotus position.

They sit at conference tables and discuss them in a civilised manner.

The room has corporate gray carpeting and a conference table .

A rectangular conference table and four chairs, of a type provided for senior public servants, stood between the tall windows.

That is, unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table .

The weekly meeting was held in his office at the conference table set in front of the south window.

But did they talk headily around the conference table ?

■ VERB

address

These are some of the questions to be addressed at the conference .

He is not down to address the conference at all.

attend

Yesterday I attended a conference for the Edmonton Clergy on Marriage.

And inside, his biography, copies of which were distributed to the media attending the news conference .

This was what they attended conference for, or at least why they bothered to turn up for the speeches.

He used to attend teacher conferences .

He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory.

George Bell, retired, fatigued, soon to die, attended the conference against the advice of his doctor.

On April 7 Modai attended the inaugural conference of his new party, the New Liberals.

hold

In 1830, the National Association held its first conference .

And why do they hold news conferences but never tell the public anything?

You may hold or attend press conferences to announce news or show a product range.

Prescott could have done something easy, like hold a new conference or issue a press release.

Establish a Cabinet committee on health promotion. Hold a conference with voluntary organisations on implementing the 1993 community care programme.

No one held a news conference to tout this one, and days passed before anyone caught wind of it.

Last week, the big three held a press conference , vowing eternal friendship and no further comment.

A Treasury spokesman said there was no need to hold a press conference with every rate change.

speak

He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition, and will speak at their conference .

Ellsworth, based in Los Angeles, spoke at the conference .

Ulster Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux is billed to speak at two conference fringe meetings.

He was speaking at a conference which follows three months of public consultation on changes to the telecommunications laws.

Mr Mugabe did not speak at the conference .

She was speaking at a conference looking at problems facing the countryside.

I spoke at the press conference to launch this booklet.

The original plan did not envisage a commercial use, he told Reuter after speaking at the conference .

tell

It is not sufficient to tell the conference that there will be no return to mass picketing.

On July 3 he told the conference that individual and group rights were inseparable.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

summon a meeting/conference etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Baxter was in Boston attending a conference on the environment.

Didn't you give a talk at the conference last year?

Lewis recently spoke at a conference of women business leaders.

Representatives from over 100 countries attended the International Peace Conference .

She's an organizer of the International Conference on AIDS that the university has every year.

Texas A&M won the Southwest Conference title last week with a 65-6 victory over SMU.

The Institute of Accountants is holding its conference in Edinburgh this year.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Besides Stanford, whom the Ducks have yet to play, Washington is the toughest opponent in the conference .

Do they come to the conference ?

In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.

James Brady is just one of hundreds of experts and survivors at a top level conference on brain injuries.

The alliance, unveiled at a Windows hardware conference in San Jose, marks the entry of Dolby into the computer arena.

We know this because White practically calls a news conference every day to relate those facts.

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