A conference held by telephone. An arranged phone call between more than two parties. / (by extension) Any multi-party telephone call.

(telecommunications) A conference held by video link; an arranged video phone call between more than two parties.

(intransitive, telecommunications) To hold or take part in a video conference.

(law) A meeting that a court may require to be held between parties to a case to determine whether those parties are prepared to go to trial.

plural of status conference

A question-and-answer session with members of television, print and other media.

plural of press conference

(countable, derogatory) A form of academic conference which is run for other than academic purposes and which does not meet normal academic standards.

(aviation, travel) any of the three IATA world-wide subdivisions used by the airline industry.

(derogatory, sciences) The practice by which scientists put an unusual focus on publicizing results of research in the media, often when they are unlikely to win the approval of the professional scientific community.