confer with

1. 1.

   get or ask advice from

   “Consult your local broker”

   “They had to consult before arriving at a decision”

   Synonymsconsult

   Broaderask

Questions about confer with

What does confer with mean?

confer with means "get or ask advice from".

What is another word for confer with?

Close synonyms include consult. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is confer with a common word?

confer with is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.