symposiumformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Debate & discussion
agent provocateur
agora
argue
argue against something
argue for something
bargainer
beard
controversial
kick around
no ifs or butsidiom
no-platform
no-platforming
on the doorstep
proposer
uncontroversially
undialectical
undiscussed
war of words
wash (something) up
weigh

forumnoun[C] (INTERNET)

a place on the internet where people can leave messages or discuss particular subjects with other people at the same time: （互联网上的）论坛
discussion forumDiscussion forums are a way of contacting people with similar interests from all over the world.各种交流讨论的论坛可以把世界各地兴趣相同的人联系起来。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Internet terminology
.plc.uk
2FA
2SV
above/below the foldidiom
address bar
affiliate link
atm
fold
Instagram
Instagrammable
Instagrammer
instant-message
internet
service provider
the World Wide Web
TikToker
timeline
trackback
trend
troll factory

forumnoun[C] (ANCIENT ROME)

in ancient Rome, the area in the middle of the town used for public business（古罗马）公共集会广场，市场

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ancient history: before 500 AD
agora
ancient
ancients
antiquity
archaic
Delphi
Delphic
dolmen
Euphrates
gladiator
mummify
neoclassicism
nones
palaeo-
paleographical
Parthenon
Saturnalia
scarab
stele
Tigris

forum | American Dictionary

forum
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfɔr·əm, ˈfoʊr-/
an occasion or a place for talking about a matter of public interest:
The university sponsored a forum on affirmative action.

forum | Business English

forum
noun[ C ]
 MEETINGSuk /ˈfɔːrəm/us
a meeting in which people can discuss subjects that are important to them with others:
create/provide a forum for sthThe meeting provided a valuable forum for discussing the issue from many diverse perspectives.
an international/regional/public forumThey plan to discuss the survey results in a public forum.
an economic/policy forumAt its summer policy forum, Labour appears to have offered a compromise.
a group of people who use the internet to discuss subjects that are important or interesting to them:
an internet/intranet/online forumShe's a regular blogger on an online forum.

Examples of forum

forum
The interplay of race, class, gender and generation was played out in local meetings, churches, picnics, dances, youth forums and campaigns.
Examples are writing op-ed articles and speaking out in public forums - now merely occasional.
In these forums farmers routinely recanted, switching from pro to anti and back again, and charges of fraud were commonplace.
Is it any wonder men endeavored to deny women access to public forums ?
The details of this experience were periodically published as well as presented at scientific forums.
In local government in particular we have seen substantial moves towards more decentralised forms of service provision in terms of area offices, or neighbourhood forums.
Participatory forums also reveal sources of political and economic inequality that undermine efforts to grant the unorganised poor genuine decision-making power.
Such occasions also had the unintended consequence of providing public forums for expressions of opposing viewpoints.
Active inclusion in state-sponsored deliberative forums may play a vital part in such a strategy.
Such constraints were strongly expressed in interviews with citizens and officials participating in local forums.
Each task force holds one or more open forums at a major national anesthesia meeting to solicit input on its draft guideline from meeting attendees.
In these forums, causal stories are fought for, defended and sustained by the actors of the policy network.
Discussion forums and mailing-lists facilitated the emergence of common interpretative schemes among activists and organisations.
The surge of these patent medicines was contingent on the expansion of forums for broad advertising in the periodical press.
Examples of mediation systems are discussion fora, where it is important to argue and negotiate about dierent issues, including design issues.
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Collocations withforum

forum

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appropriate forum
But in considering how it should be implemented we must also determine which is the most appropriateforum for pursuing such objectives.
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