conferencing
- 1Communication among several participants who come together for serious discussion.
Modern conferencing lets colleagues across continents debate strategy in real time.
The court introduced family conferencing to resolve disputes through structured dialogue.
Similarconsultation, dialogue
- 2Present participle and gerund of conference.
The senators are conferencing behind closed doors over the proposed bill.
Teachers spend their afternoons conferencing with parents about student progress.
Note
A verb made from the noun conference, and in its own right a teacher's word: to assess a student by one-on-one conversation instead of an examination. It works with or without an object, so a tutor can be conferencing a student or simply conferencing with one. The same spelling serves the noun for group discussion, so read the grammar: after is or are it is the verb; after a word like family it is the noun.
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conferencing is a form of conference
conference, verb: To hold or join a meeting or call, especially by phone or video, or to bring another person into the call. Full entry
- Forms
- conferenceconferences he/she/itconferencing -ing formconferenced past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- conference → conferencing: drop the e, add -ing
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