"confers" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an verb that means to give something as a privilege, honor, or gift to someone or something. For example: "The King conferred the title of nobility on his loyal knight."
The call not to click is spreading as, perhaps, we belatedly learn that the freedom to surf confers a responsibility.
The Tucson, Arizona-based International Dark Skies Association IDAA) confers the status only on places that take major steps to avoid light pollution.
But that war was lost when gay sex was legalised, and now civil partnership confers equal inheritance rights.
Having parents who live in London also confers a huge advantage if you want to work in the arts, media, finance or law, because you can bunk up in the family home while you slog through unpaid internships or further study.
DRIVING an electric car confers a badge of greenery, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe.
But buying a computer program confers merely a licence to use the software.
But the Basle process also confers benefits in the shape of the constant exchange of information between bank regulators, which the capital markets miss out on, and for which they have tried to find substitutes.
Buying a computer, for instance, confers ownership or, at least, it does at present.
Supporters say the queen confers global prestige or offers a bulwark against constitutional meddling by politicians.
Organic food costs more and confers no scientifically proven benefit on those who eat it.
In the healthy, a vaccinia infection is largely harmless and merely confers immunity to smallpox.
