conferment
- noun
- /kənˈfɜr.mənt/
- Formal
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- During the graduation ceremony, the university president will oversee the conferment of degrees to the students.
Examples
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There was opposition to President Charles Taylor of Liberia being granted an honorary degree by Morehouse College, while a campaign was launched against the conferment of an honorary doctorate on Lee Kuan Yew, the Singaporean Senior Minister, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Indeed, the conferment of chieftaincy titles was linked with the achievement of these virtues by the individual, his material achievements notwithstanding.
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I enjoyed the two days I spent in Cambridge in connection with the conferment of an honorary degree on me...
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His Majesty removed my servants and took back my conferment treasure.
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Hughes claims that the value added constitutes a contribution that warrants the conferment of property rights.
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The CFPA was organized in 2010 to provide the most scientifically rigorous conferments in college football.
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Degree conferment for Native women in graduate education is considerably higher than among their male counterparts, with Native women earning 65 percent of master's degrees and 56 percent of doctorates in 2013.
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Conferment of emergency powers automatically authorizes both the military and the police to use armed force with individuals attempting to escape arrest, to allow for extensive detention, and to grant government officials immunity from prosecution when exercising their new power.
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The conferment of special status in the experimental period may stimulate higher motivation and achievement; however, the same effects may not be present when the intervention is replicated and routinized under more conventional conditions.
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In premodern times, the family was open-ended and extended far beyond parents and offspring to include all sorts of blood relatives and even neighbors, unrelated by blood but deemed familial through the conferment of courtesy titles (Shorter 1977).
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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3.2
Giving a prize or certificate to someone in public
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9.1
A formal ceremony that gives someone an official position, rank or honor with symbols like a badge
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7.5
An act of giving a gift or honor in a formal way
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7.9
Giving an honor, title, or award in a formal ceremony
An act of giving something important like an award or gift to someone
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word conferment comes from Latin parts con- ('together') and ferre ('to bring'), and it is like the English word offer which also has the idea of bringing something to someone. So, a conferment is the act of officially bringing or giving an honor to someone.