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convention

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Convention may refer to: Treaty , an agreement in international law Convention (meeting) , a large gathering of people who share a common interest Political convention , a formal gathering of people for political purposes Fan convention , a gathering of ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE annual ▪ Bognor has been the unlikely home to the annual clowns' convention since 1985. ▪ They have just suffered the unpleasant experience of having a three day annual convention of Young Farmers inflicted upon ...

Usage examples of convention.

Each in my world, it seemed, carried about with him a bubble of space, a perimeter, a wall, an invisible shield, an unconsciously acculturated, socially sanctioned remoteness, a barrier decreed by convention and conditioning.

A constitutional convention was in the offing, and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his Thoughts on Government, so Adams plunged ahead now, books piled about him, his pen scratching away until all hours.

IN LATE 1820, at age eighty-five, Adams found himself chosen as a delegate to a state convention called to revise the Massachusetts constitution that he had drafted some forty years before.

If that schedule is carried through, the Alamo will be berthed in Matagorda Bay, the Republic of Texas, shortly before the presidential conventions begin.

This contradicts the convention of this book, and is being used in the section on Alberti only to avoid altering his text.

I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse.

They think it is like a convention, where they can pile up eight deep in one room, sharing two and a half sleeping bags and a submarine sandwich.

Why did masses of them crammed into convention hotel room parties exude such clouds of antisexual pheromones?

Shortly after his appointment to Justice he went for a day to the Canadian Bar Association convention at Banff, Alberta.

March and April issues had given prominent mention to this annual convention, at which the main speakers would be the two most celebrated Bodark writers, I.

Harry the Horse why he does not walk right in and send his name up to her, but it seems he cannot remember the name he gives her on the train, and anyway, he does not wish her to find out that it is all the phonus bolonus about us being delegates to the convention.

In Barrow, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission spent a large part of its annual convention last year discussing, among other things, the perils of hunting bowhead whales from increasingly thinner ice.

They carried with them a valuable present and a letter from the Convention to the Burman emperor, sent in the hope of conciliating his favor toward the missionaries.

Cambon and his critics in the Convention it was flagrant evidence of a Caesarist plot.

Over the end of the year, the two mathematicians, Casanova and Opiz, at the request of Count Waldstein, made a scientific examination of the reform of the calendar as decreed the 5th October 1793 by the National Convention.