Noun
1. a large formal assembly;
2. something regarded as a normative example;
3. (diplomacy) an international agreement
4. orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
5. the act of convening
He was delegated to the convention.
Japan has signed a convention of peace with a neighbouring country.
It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
HKBU ( Hong Kong Baptist University ) was founded by the Baptist Convention of Hong Kong in 1956 as the Hong Kong Baptist College.
The Convention of Peking in 1860 , which ended the hostilities, provided for its outright cession.
They met at an annual convention in New York.
Convention dictates that a minister should resign in such a situation.
Japan has signed a convention of peace with a neighboring country.
By convention the deputy leader was always a woman.
The action is an open violation of the Vienna Convention.
Houston was chosen as the site for the convention.
The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of last week's convention.
The Democrat convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
Since the Convention was drawn up international opinion has begun to move against it.
After the war, a convention was set up to frame a constitution.
Despite her wish to defy convention, she had become pregnant and married at 21.
It's obviously important to get as much mileage out of the convention as possible.
The convention does not apply to us.
Moderates are putting it about that people shouldn't take the things said at the Republican Convention too seriously.
He's determined to speak at the Democratic Convention.
The country appears to be violating several articles of the convention.
The National Convention has promised armed support to any people who wish to rise against armed oppression.
Freed from the bonds of convention and the fear of what others may think, the mind responds with new solutions.
The world of advertising is obviously less bound by convention than the world of banking.
Back in the Fifties, social convention required that males models keep their kit on.
We go offstage and come back for the convention of the encore.
agreement, contract, treaty, convention, bargain, understanding, accord
conference, congress, assembly, meeting, rally, council, session, convention, gathering
habit, custom, manners, usage, practice, convention, tradition
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