parley
noun
a discussion or conference.
Example Sentences
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Last February, after multiple military parleys, Indian and Chinese troops completed a pullout from a lake area in Ladakh.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022
Whereas posts on Twitter are called tweets, on Parler they are known as "parleys."
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2021
There are meals of carne asada and manioc soup; parleys over endless rounds of yerba maté; social scandals that erupt at horse races; deadly tropical fevers; and red dust, relentless sun, and clouds of mosquitoes.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
Middle Eastern Christians have no army of their own, no government that represents them in world capitals, no voice in international parleys that have a bearing on their fate.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2015
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.—Marguerite de Valois.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
