Definition of "confer" []

• To bestow (an honor, for example): conferred a medal on the hero; conferred an honorary degree on her. (verb-transitive)
• To invest with (a characteristic, for example): a carefully worded statement that conferred an aura of credibility. (verb-transitive)
• To meet in order to deliberate together or compare views; consult: conferred with her attorney. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "” It is short for the Latin word confer and instructs the reader to compare one thing with another."
• "The problem with allowing firearms officers to confer is that it opens those same officers up to charges of collusion and fabrication and it gives every aggrieved person a whopping big target to fling crap at, and every time they do public confidence in the police is hurt."
• "What I also try to confer is that you don't need divine interaction when talking about designs or goal-orientation."