conference center conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
conference room | a room in which a conference can be held |
conference table council table council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
hand-held computer hand-held microcomputer | a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket |
conference call | a telephone call in which more than two people participate |
conference group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
press conference news conference | a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity |
pretrial pretrial conference | (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried, more useful in civil than in criminal cases |
round table roundtable round-table conference | a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views, a roundtable on the future of computing |
league conference | an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members |
conference | a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) |
Potsdam Conference | a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended |
Yalta Conference | a conference held in Yalta in February where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe |
closed corporation close corporation private corporation privately held corporation | a corporation owned by a few people, shares have no public market |
closely held corporation | stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few shareholders who have no plans to sell |
closely-held | owned by a relatively few shareholders, a closely-held corporation |
hand-held handheld | small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands, a hand-held computer |
held | occupied or in the control of, often used in combination, enemy-held territory |