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[kuhn-ven-shuhn]

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noun

a meeting or formal assembly, as of representatives or delegates, for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.

U.S. Politics. a representative party assembly to nominate candidates and adopt platforms and party rules.

an agreement, compact, or contract.

an international agreement, especially one dealing with a specific matter, as postal service or copyright.

a rule, method, or practice established by usage; custom: the convention of showing north at the top of a map.

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general agreement or consent; accepted usage, especially as a standard of procedure.

conventionalism.

Bridge. any of a variety of established systems or methods of bidding or playing that allows partners to convey certain information about their hands.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English convencio(u)n (< Middle French ) < Latin conventiōn- (stem of conventiō) agreement, literally, a coming together. See convene, -tion

Related forms

an·ti·con·ven·tion, adjective

coun·ter·con·ven·tion, noun

post·con·ven·tion, adjective

pre·con·ven·tion, noun

pro·con·ven·tion, adjective

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un·con·ven·tion, noun

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Synonyms
1. Convention, assembly, conference, convocation name meetings for particular purposes. Convention usually suggests a meeting of delegates representing political, church, social, or fraternal organizations. Assembly usually implies a meeting for a settled or customary purpose, as for discussion, legislation, or participation in a social function. Conference suggests a meeting for consultation and discussion about business or professional problems. Convocation denotes a (church) assembly, the members of which have been summoned for a special purpose; chapel services at some colleges are called convocations. 3. pact, treaty.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Example Sentences

The process has four steps: the precinct caucuses, the county conventions, the district conventions and the state convention.

It's no accident that some scholars wind up speaking about their recent books at academic conventions.

Barbie collectors fuel an entire global industry on eBay and at conventions.

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The process has four steps: the precinct caucuses, the county conventions, the district conventions and the state convention.

It's no accident that some scholars wind up speaking about their recent books at academic conventions.

Barbie collectors fuel an entire global industry on eBay and at conventions.

They are conventions that have been created, adapted, and/or devised by nature and humans.

Linguistic conventions are implicitly or explicitly agreed on regularities in behavior shared by a linguistic community.

Taft dominated the caucuses that sent delegates to the state conventions.

Take the role of a battle-hardened robot with a decidedly sensual side, and geeks at sci-fi conventions can get a mixed message.

Participants in the county conventions select delegates to the state convention.

Finally, familiarize yourself with the conventions of various discussion formats within your discipline.

She showed that there are almost always elaborate conventions over who can use resources and when.

Singapore hosts many conventions and conferences and many hotels can be full during weekdays.

Every bit of past and future advancement rests on two things: technological protocols and social conventions.

That's because there are strict naming conventions for astronomical bodies.

Knockoffs of the golden bikini are a staple of science fiction and comic book conventions.

Conventions are a huge expense to the party and the media.

They are meaningful conventions but they are conventions nonetheless.

Faced with uncertainty, they resort to whatever conventions they can find to cling to, from popular wisdom to new theories.

We can also use our membership of international conventions to bring influence or provoke reflection.

Replication, peer review and the conventions of science do work.

That's about all the two conventions havein common, though, musically speaking.

Scrapping conventions in favor of a primary election would allow individuals who are not clubhouse loyalists to compete.

Time and place are compressed, and filmic conventions may gloss over details that have consumed your research hours.

Journalistic conventions generally mitigate against directly castigating average people for their poor choice of leaders.

The thing about creations and conventions is that they typically could have been done differently.

In the early days, stories were circulated either by hand at conventions or through small zines.

He seems to be running with great glee against all the conventions of modern campaigningInstead of.

People who don't pay attention to normal driving conventions.

Otherwise you have a choice to pull out of such conventions and see where it leads you.

He published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at conventions for decades.

Despite the vaguely stuffy image that phrase conjures up, the annual conventions are lively and.

Its tension holds tight even while it ridicules conventions of the genre.

Rather it was to help folks negotiate those conventions.

International comparisons can also be blurred by different accounting conventions.

There are conventions that need to be re-standardized.

Obey the conventions of the setting and you can tell any kind of story you want.

Modern art history is partly a record of attempted liberation from outworn aesthetics and social conventions.

They'll need to learn to follow conventions if they are going to continue in the academy/workplace.

At this point, it's no good them railing against unwritten conventions.

The writers do poke fun at the conventions of the genre from time to.

His problem was not the injection of rock vulgarities into dusty old operatic conventions.

Tag along with your husband to some accounting conventions.

Elections are held and human-rights conventions are signed.

For her, the conventions of marriage are a form of literature, often bad literature.

But manners and conventions are precisely about solving that sort of problem.

The nominating conventions met today, and were fully attended.

Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation.

The conventions informing those codes are powerful and deeply naturalized.

It's a specialty with its own focus, forumulas, and conventions.

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Word Origin & History

convention

c.1440, from L. conventionem (nom. conventio), pp. of convenire (see convene).

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"... women are supposed to be unfit to vote because they are hysterical and emotional and of course men would not like to have emotion enter into a political campaign. They want to cut out all emotion and so they would like to cut us out. I had heard so much about our emotionalism that I went to the last Democratic national convention, held at Baltimore, to observe the calm repose of the male politicians. I saw some men take a picture of one gentleman whom they wanted elected and it was so big they had to walk sidewise as they carried it forward; they were followed by hundreds of other men screaming and yelling, shouting and singing the "Houn' Dawg".... I saw men jump up on the seats and throw their hats in the air and shout: "What's the matter with Champ Clark?" Then, when those hats came down, other men would kick them back into the air, shouting at the top of their voices: "He's all right!!"... No hysteria about it—just patriotic loyalty, splendid manly devotion to principle. And so they went on and on until 5 o'clock in the morning—the whole night long. I saw men jump up on their seats and jump down again and run around in a ring. I saw two men run towards another man to hug him both at once and they split his coat up the middle of his back and sent him spinning around like a wheel. All this with the perfect poise of the legal male mind in politics! I have been to many women's conventions in my day but I never saw a woman leap up on a chair and take off her bonnet and toss it up in the air and shout: "What's the matter with" somebody. I never saw a woman knock another woman's bonnet off her head as she screamed, "She's all right!".... But we are willing to admit that we are emotional. I have actually seen women stand up and wave their handkerchiefs. I have even seen them take hold of hands and sing, "Blest be the tie that binds." Nobody doubts that women are excitable."

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