arrange for, cause, effect, effectuate, bring about,
conducive, adj. contributive, contributing, contributory, accessory, ancillary; helpful, instrumental, useful; favorable, advantageous, convenient, good, in a fair way; leaning towards, tending towards, disposed towards.
conduct, n. 1. behavior, demeanor, deportment, comportment, Both Archaic, havior, gest; bearing, carriage, posture, gait, pose, port; manners, p's and q's; breeding, upbringing, rearing; habits, ways, dealings, customs, practice; morals, ethics, principles.
2. reaction, responses, adaptation, adjustment; performance, function, operation.
3. misbehavior, disobedience, delinquency, misdeeds, Inf cutting up, Inf goings-on. See - misbehavior.
4. direction, management, superintendence, supervision, oversight; regulation, running, operation, administration, government; control, command, charge.
5. orchestration, engineering, negotiation; execution, carrying out, performance, doing; accomplishment, discharge, fulfillment, consummation, completion.
6. conducting, leading, guidance, escort, tour.
7. direct, run, operate, manage, carry on; administer, govern, regulate, control, boss; superintend, supervise, oversee, preside over, look after; orchestrate, engineer, negotiate, work out.
8. execute, carry out, perform, do; succeed in, bring off, Sl. pull off, Inf put over, All U.S. Sl. swing, cut, hack; accomplish, discharge, fulfill, complete, consummate; bring about, make happen, cause, effect, effectuate, produce.
9. lead, guide, take, show the way, escort, accompany. -v. 10. (all of oneself) behave, deport, demean, comport, acquit; carry, bear, manage, govern, regulate.
conductor, n. 1. leader, chief, director, fugleman; head, marshal, drum major; chairman, president, executive; manager, supervisor, Inf. super, superintendent, overseer, Inf. boss; administrator, dean, functionary, bureaucrat, government official; captain, skipper, master, pilot, driver, steersman, helmsman; guide, cicerone, usher, escort, guard.
2. maestro, choir master, precentor, coryphaeus.
3. transmitter, carrier, conveyor, bearer,
conduit, n. 1. duct, pipe, main, tube, cylinder; passage, passageway, adit; sewer, culvert, cloaca, flume, trough, chute; spout, gutter, drain, gully, ditch.
2. canal, artificial waterway, channel, race, watercourse; strait, aqueduct, waterway, seaway,
confabulate, v. chat, chitchat, palaver, converse, coze, talk together, pass the time of day, Inf confab, Sl. rap, Sl. chin, Sl. chew the fat, Sl. shoot the breeze or bull, Sl. bull; talk or speak with, have a talk with, converse with, commune with, communicate with, visit with.
confection, n. 1. composition, concoction, making; manufacture, production, preparation.
2. candy, sweet, sweetmeat, bonbon, comfit, dainty, confectionary; preserve, conserve, confect, confiture,
confederacy, n alliance, coalition, entente; union, league, bloc, bund, federation, federacy, confederation; partnership, corporation, incorporation, conglomerate, trust.
confederation, n. 1. leaguing, unionizing, unification, union, allying, uniting, joining with, banding together, joining forces, teaming up, siding with, going along with, taking part, Inf. hitching horses; merging, blending, amalgamating, amalgamation, consolidating, consolidation, incorporating, incorporation; centralizing, centralization, federalizing, federalization, federating, federation.