Meaning of convention | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Agreement, pact, convention.
2. A meeting or gathering.
   countable, uncountable
3. A meeting or gathering
4. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
   countable, uncountable
5. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
6. A meeting of members of a political party, especially of delegates to choose candidates for an election.
7. The convening of a formal meeting.
   countable, uncountable
8. The convening of a formal meeting
9. (negative unconventional) according to the accepted standards etc; not outrageous or eccentric. conventional dress; the more conventional forms of art. konvensioneel تَقْليدي общоприет convencional konvenční herkömmlich konventionel; traditionel συμβατικός, τυπικόςconvencional kombekohane معمول؛ قراردادی sovinnainen conventionnelמקובל परम्परागत uobičajen, prihvaćen hagyományos konvensional viðtekinn, venjulegur convenzionale 型にはまった 재래적인 visuotinai priimtas, įprastinis, konvencionalus konvenci...
   negative
10. A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
    countable, uncountable
11. A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact
12. vormlikheid تَـقْـليديّه традиционност convencionalismo konvenčnost die Herkömmlichkeit konventionalisme; traditionel holdning συμβατικότητα, τυπικότηταconvencionalismo kombekohasus سنتی یا عرفی بودن sovinnaisuus usage(s) admis שגרה पारंपरिकता konvencionalnost konvenció, szokás, hagyomány adat istiadat siðvenjufesta, viðteknar venjur convenzionalità 因襲 인습, 관례 įprastumas, konvencionalumas konvencionalitāte; pieņemto sabiedrisko normu ievērošana sifat yang konvensional conventionaliteit konvens...
13. A treaty or supplement to such.
    countable, uncountable
14. A treaty or supplement to such
15. A formal meeting of members, representatives, or delegates, as of a political party, fraternal society, profession, or industry.
16. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
    countable, uncountable
17. An agreement between states, sides, or military forces, especially an international agreement dealing with a specific subject, such as the treatment of prisoners of war.
18. General agreement on or acceptance of certain practices or attitudes: By convention, north is at the top of most maps.
19. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom: the convention of shaking hands.
20. A widely used and accepted device or technique, as in drama, literature, or painting: the theatrical convention of the aside.
21. a large formal assembly of a group with common interests, such as a political party or trade union
22. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) politics US an assembly of delegates of one party to select candidates for office
    politics

Equivalents

Examples

“The convention was held in Geneva.”

“The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.”

“The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.”

“The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.”

“Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol.”

“The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.”

“In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re- placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below: (40) VP → V AP (PP) (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be optional.)”

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