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How to pronounce confab in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit
Type of discourse, converse
Has types schmoose, shmoose, shmooze, schmooze, jawbone
Type Words
Synonyms chat, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze
Type of conversation
Has types chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle, causerie
Type Words
Synonyms confabulate, confer, consult
Type of discuss, talk over, hash out
Has types collogue

Examples of confab

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The New York Times donated the same amount that year to help host the GOP confab.
From the denverpost.com
Blair's agenda for the confab concentrates on climate change and aid to Africa.
From the time.com
It begins .with a family confab in Lady Britomart Undershaft's London town house.
From the time.com
How much did investors like Bank of America's first investor confab in four years?
From the blogs.wsj.com
The Qatar confab sought agreement to seek a worldwide binding agreement later.
From the ocregister.com
Do you remember Rick Warren's little confab during the 2008 Presidential campaign?
From the scienceblogs.com
There is however a possibility of Germany hosting the elite confab this year.
From the infowars.com
The June confab took place in an airy loft in Manhattan's hip Chelsea neighborhood.
From the management.fortune.cnn.com
I hear they're thisclose to having Rage Against the Machine play during the confab.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • Chat: an informal conversation
  • Chew the fat: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
  • Confer: have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action"
  • In psychology, confabulation is the spontaneous narrative report of events that never happened. It consists of the creation of false memories, perceptions, or beliefs about the self or the environment usually as a result of neurological or psychological dysfunction. ...
  • A casual talk or chat; To speak casually with; to chat
  • Convention or professional gathering; "TV programming execs gather annually at the NATPE confab."
  • Contraction of CONFABulation, being an informal and private conversation; to talk, converse, palaver, discuss, consult, confer, discourse, council, parley. See CALL ON THE CARPET, VERBUM SAP, OFFICER'S CALL, BRIEFING, DEBRIEF, EAR-BANG, CROSS-TALK, CHATTER, HALF-MAST, CHIN CHIN, POWWOW, SUMMIT. ...