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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
convention
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 them.
▪ Less than a month later, all of us found ourselves in Orlando at a party during the annual Florida Bar convention.
▪ The place was Kyoto, where the International Press Institute was holding its annual convention.
▪ The annual booksellers convention is usually the place to learn what may be hot in the fall publishing season.
constitutional
▪ Without realizing it Macmillan trespassed on the modern constitutional convention.
▪ The group, which set up its own provisional government in December, hopes to hold a constitutional convention within two years.
▪ Whatever the formal constitutional conventions and party rules, the Prime Minister is normally in effective control.
▪ The Bill draws on the scheme proposed by the constitutional convention.
▪ In this sense, the legal doctrine of sovereignty is the most fundamental of our constitutional conventions.
▪ The point at which a useful and necessary practice is accorded the status of a constitutional convention is not clear.
democratic
▪ Chris Dodd would say the same thing about the Democratic convention.
▪ Democratic Party nominees who have lost the White House will not be attending the Democratic convention.
▪ Mrs Clinton began hammering away at the issues during her appearance before Florida Democrats at the Democratic convention.
▪ McCord had told him he would be doing the same thing at the Democratic convention in Miami.
▪ One of the last great red-hot liberals addressed the Democratic convention Tuesday, but he was something of an afterthought.
international
▪ Copyright is subject to two international conventions by which reciprocal protection is granted between members.
▪ All age determinations have been normalized to -25 in accordance with international convention.
▪ This type of carriage of goods is regulated by international convention.
▪ There is a crying need for an international insolvency convention.
▪ It proposed an international convention on air transport under the auspices of an international authority.
▪ She is keen on the idea of an international convention on the atmosphere.
▪ Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods.
national
▪ Meanwhile newly established caretaker committees for each party were to start electing new leaderships and organizing national conventions.
▪ Louisiana Republicans kick off the 1996 quest for national convention delegates Tuesday in party caucuses around the state, with Sen.
▪ The selection of Bush continues a recent tradition of Texans in major roles at national political conventions.
▪ No major national political convention had ever been held in California before.
▪ He had a number of black bishop friends in Arkansas who passed the word around at their national conventions.
▪ The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August or early September.
▪ Their national nominating conventions no longer nominate presidential candidates.
▪ It was the last national convention that required more than a single ballot to nominate a presidential candidate.
political
▪ There will also be close, searched boats, blocked streets and all the other inconveniences of a major political convention.
▪ Not many men could say they brought a national political convention to their own neighborhood.
▪ And a relative handful have ever attended a national political convention.
▪ No major national political convention had ever been held in California before.
▪ The campaign for book buyers' dollars is heating up again this summer, as the political conventions draw near.
▪ The selection of Bush continues a recent tradition of Texans in major roles at national political conventions.
▪ It was the first opportunity for the second-term congressman and former television producer to address a national political convention.
▪ His plan to convene a summer political convention drawing together individuals and groups who organized the Million Man March.
republican
▪ Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee.
▪ All a fellow has to do to write something funny on a Republican convention is just write what happened.
▪ Back in 1988 he had the nerve to raise interest rates on the eve of the Republican convention.
▪ The Republican convention was the most lavish exorcism in history.
▪ Steve Pierce at the Massachusetts Republican convention and needed to win the primary to salvage the nomination.
▪ Quite a few San Diegans' summers are being spoiled by the Republican convention.
▪ He was a strong presence at the Republican convention last summer, giving a stirring speech and darting from event to event.
social
▪ A Social Credit Party convention to choose a new leader was expected to be held in June.
▪ How do you carve out your identity when your parents were so rebellious and so against the social conventions?
▪ What actions express an attitude is largely a matter of social convention.
▪ The purpose of the supper forgotten by the Corinthians, customary social convention prevailed and divisions resulted.
▪ He completely disregarded strictly enforced social conventions and religious restrictions in order to contact the outcasts of society.
▪ Cooley presents a report of conversation with a former and a description of social conventions.
▪ He further demonstrates that what is being tested is often the social conventions of a dominant class, rather than universal logic.
▪ It preaches the doctrine that individuals should be allowed to do anything they wish unfettered by social conventions.
■ NOUN
center
▪ Before forming the task force, Golding said the planned $ 213 million convention center expansion will not be included.
▪ The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
▪ The convention center is at 9800 International Drive, Orlando.
▪ Like Anderson, they wanted those within the convention center to hear them.
▪ The water quality board cited the port in 1995 for excessive contaminants in the convention center operation.
▪ She said her organization will highlight the issue during a pair of rallies at an official protest site outside the convention center.
▪ He also made a deal with the Port District that permitted construction of the convention center.
▪ The city will assume responsibility for convention center permit issues when bonds are issued to finance expansion of the facility.
delegate
▪ The truth was that by 1988 the television audience had entirely replaced the convention delegates as the focus of attention.
▪ After the Super Tuesday contests, Dole expects to have about 700 convention delegates.
▪ On Saturday night, the 476 convention delegates will question Republican presidential hopefuls.
▪ In keeping with this cosmetic calm, Powell was well-received by convention delegates who applauded him generously at his most inspirational moments.
▪ The departure came just hours before Clinton triumphantly addressed the convention delegates, who unanimously nominated him for re-election Wednesday night.
▪ Schweiker changed not a single convention delegate vote.
▪ Q.. Are the county convention delegates obligated to support the presidential candidates preferred in their caucuses?
floor
▪ A guy walks around the convention floor with a boa constrictor around his neck.
▪ Television cameramen in San Diego were given color coded maps to help them spot minority faces on the convention floor.
▪ A proposed resolution to oppose voucher plans and charter schools provoked a spirited debate on the convention floor.
hall
▪ And at mid-day Wednesday, she was rehearsing her walk through the convention hall.
▪ Enroute they passed a motorcade racing the other direction carrying Bush to join Reagan at convention hall and accept the nomination.
▪ He hopes to have busloads of protesters outside the convention hall Wednesday, when Clinton is to arrive.
▪ Activists on both sides demonstrated outside the convention hall, as expected.
▪ We will fight them inside the convention hall.
party
▪ A Social Credit Party convention to choose a new leader was expected to be held in June.
▪ For the past two decades, the national party conventions have been reduced to rubber-stamping the primaries' popular choices.
▪ The report was adopted at a party convention in March.
▪ A staunch opponent of the Accord, Chrétien was elected leader at a party convention on June 23.
▪ I attended my own first national party convention in 1960.
▪ A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July.
▪ But none of the Founding Fathers ever went to a party convention.
■ VERB
address
▪ It was the first opportunity for the second-term congressman and former television producer to address a national political convention.
▪ The departure came just hours before Clinton triumphantly addressed the convention delegates, who unanimously nominated him for re-election Wednesday night.
▪ One of the last great red-hot liberals addressed the Democratic convention Tuesday, but he was something of an afterthought.
adopt
▪ It is good practise to adopt a naming convention to prevent this from occurring.
▪ The report was adopted at a party convention in March.
▪ The notation can be greatly simplified by adopting the Einstein summation convention in which we sum over repeated indices.
▪ In side rooms Beuys adopts the conventions of the geological or natural history museum rather than the gallery.
attend
▪ Democratic Party nominees who have lost the White House will not be attending the Democratic convention.
▪ Five days before, he had told me he would not attend the convention because he had not been asked to speak.
▪ The experts also say many potential big-wig Tucson visitors have a hankering to play golf when they attend a convention.
▪ The Pentagon has asked the armed services panel to end its extra review of officers who attended the convention.
▪ And a relative handful have ever attended a national political convention.
▪ However, Buchanan said he would attend the convention.
▪ I am in Norfolk to attend a real estate convention with my wife.
defy
▪ To defy convention, surrender her virginity, to a man she neither loved nor desired must be quite out of the question.
▪ Amber, nevertheless, defied conventions, behaved outrageously, and pursued her man in a manner quite unusual for the 19405.
▪ He had been ready to defy the conventions and take on the world - and win! he thought.
▪ You could, of course, defy convention and make all your early turns to the right.
follow
▪ If user-defined characters are to be mixed with standard characters, they should follow this convention.
▪ In the remainder of the book, we follow convention and use the term national income.
▪ You should follow this convention in writing a press release.
▪ In the Penguin edition J. C. Maxwell does not follow the capitalization conventions of the text printed here.
▪ The patterning of sleep illustrated in Figure 2.8 is not only typical, but follows conventions which are universal.
hold
▪ Each of the three constituent elements within the new party was due to hold a convention to ratify the merger.
▪ The group, which set up its own provisional government in December, hopes to hold a constitutional convention within two years.
▪ The place was Kyoto, where the International Press Institute was holding its annual convention.
▪ The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August or early September.
▪ Both are held under chivalric conventions of a formal confrontation between champions.
▪ For starters, the Democrats can hold their next convention in an undecorated airplane hangar.
▪ This weekend the Medieval Circle, a bunch of amateur historians, is holding a convention.
nominate
▪ For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat.
▪ Joe was, as always, resplendent when he traveled to the two political parties' summer nominating conventions.
▪ Then came the modern presidential nominating conventions.
▪ Typically, presidential campaigns do not begin in earnest until Labor Day, after both parties' nominating conventions.
▪ Their national nominating conventions no longer nominate presidential candidates.
▪ The real decisions were still made at the national nominating conventions.
▪ Connally spent $ 12 million to win just one delegate to the nominating convention.
▪ Verney said the party hopes to have a nominating convention around Labor Day.
sign
▪ This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
▪ In return they will be allowed to raise prices by several percent more than competitors who have not signed the government convention.
speak
▪ Weld was scheduled to speak Wednesday night when convention organizers intend to stress economic issues.
▪ Can you remember anyone other than Clinton and Gore who spoke at the last convention?
▪ Before speaking to the religious convention, he toured a curfew center for teens who violate the law.
▪ Mrs Clinton did not speak before the Democratic convention in 1992.
▪ Was a former president, Gerald Ford, speaking to the convention?
▪ No Democrats are expected to show up to speak at the convention.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a convention for Star Trek fans
▪ an annual convention of the world bank
▪ For the next four years they defied convention by living as man and wife when they were not.
▪ He is a flamboyant millionaire who ignores social conventions.
▪ It is a matter of convention that male business people usually wear suits.
▪ Italian neorealism breaks with film conventions of the past.
▪ Lofgren told a convention of church activists that she wanted the money to be spend on local childrens' facilities.
▪ Sand was a freethinker who refused to follow the conventions of her day.
▪ Several hundred people are expected at the hotel next month for a huge sales convention.
▪ She shocked her neighbours by ignoring every convention of respectable society.
▪ the European convention on human rights
▪ The handshake is a social convention.
▪ The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August.
▪ the Republican Convention
▪ The Senator's speech at the Democratic Convention was well received.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But back to Bodytalk, whose convention happened to be at the Metropole, next to Labour's conference hotel.
▪ From the get-go, Ullman serves notice that her show will not be driven by convention.
▪ Indeed, within Renaissance convention, the two do not have the clear associations they do within Romantic conventions.
▪ The difference is that the poststructuralists put themselves forth as heterodox prophets and turn out to be priests of convention.
▪ The labelling of the terminal variables I i and I o in figure 10.2 conforms with this convention.
▪ The relative calm before this convention is almost eerie.
▪ The water quality board cited the port in 1995 for excessive contaminants in the convention center operation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convention

Convention \Con*ven"tion\, n. [L. conventio: cf. F. convention. See Convene, v. i.]

  1. The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

    The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination.
    --Boyle.

  2. General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.

    There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down.
    --Tennyson.

  3. A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.

    He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles.
    --Sir R. Baker.

    A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of reserving the federal system, and correcting its defects.
    --W. Irving.

  4. (Eng. Hist) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.

    Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.
    --Macaulay.

  5. An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.

    This convention, I think from my soul, is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy; a truce without a suspension of hostilities.
    --Ld. Chatham.

    The convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their Legislature.
    --T. Jefferson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
convention

early 15c., "agreement," from Middle French convention and directly from Latin conventionem (nominative conventio) "meeting, assembly, covenant," noun of action from past participle stem of convenire (see convene).

Wiktionary
convention

n. A meeting or gathering.

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WordNet
convention

  1. n. a large formal assembly; "political convention"

  2. something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors" [syn: normal, pattern, rule, formula]

  3. (diplomacy) an international agreement

  4. orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: conventionality, conventionalism] [ant: unconventionality]

  5. the act of convening [syn: convening]

Wikipedia
Convention (norm)

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

Certain types of rules or customs may become law and regulatory legislation may be introduced to formalize or enforce the convention (for example, laws that define on which side of the road vehicles must be driven). In a social context, a convention may retain the character of an "unwritten law" of custom (for example, the manner in which people greet each other, such as by shaking each other's hands).

In physical sciences, numerical values (such as constants, quantities, or scales of measurement) are called conventional if they do not represent a measured property of nature, but originate in a convention, for example an average of many measurements, agreed between the scientists working with these values.

Convention (Paris Métro)

Convention is a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro in the 15th arrondissement.

The station opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. It is named after the Rue de la Convention.

Convention

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 fans of a particular media property or genre
  • Trade fair
  • Convention (norm), a custom or tradition, a standard of presentation or conduct
  • Bridge convention, a term in the game of bridge
  • "The Convention" (The Office episode)
  • "Convention" (Malcolm in the Middle episode)
Convention (meeting)

A convention, in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. The most common conventions are based upon industry, profession, and fandom. Trade conventions typically focus on a particular industry or industry segment, and feature keynote speakers, vendor displays, and other information and activities of interest to the event organizers and attendees. Professional conventions focus on issues of concern to the profession and advancements in the profession. Such conventions are generally organized by societies or communities dedicated to promotion of the topic of interest. Fan conventions usually feature displays, shows, and sales based on pop culture and guest celebrities. Science fiction conventions traditionally partake of the nature of both professional conventions and fan conventions, with the balance varying from one to another. Conventions also exist for various hobbies, such as gaming or model railroads.

Conventions are often planned and coordinated, often in exacting detail, by professional meeting and convention planners, either by staff of the convention's hosting company or by outside specialists. Most large cities will have a convention center dedicated to hosting such events. The term MICE—meetings Incentives Conventions and Exhibitions—is widely used in Asia as a description of the industry. The Convention ("C") is one of the most dynamic elements in the M.I.C.E. segment. The industry is generally regulated under the tourism sector.

In the technical sense, a convention is a meeting of delegates or representatives. The 1947 Newfoundland National Convention is a classic example of a state-sponsored political convention. More often, organizations made up of smaller units, chapters, or lodges, such as labor unions, honorary societies, and fraternities and sororities, meet as a whole in convention by sending delegates of the units to deliberate on the organization's common issues. This also applies to a political convention, though in modern times the common issues are limited to selecting a party candidate or party chairman. In this technical sense, a congress, when it consists of representatives, is a convention. The British House of Commons is a convention, as are most other houses of a modern representative legislature. The National Convention or just "Convention" in France comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from September 20, 1792 to October 26, 1795. The governing bodies of religious groups may also be called conventions, such as the General Convention of the Episcopal Church USA and the Southern Baptist Convention.

Many sovereign states have provisions for conventions besides their permanent legislature. The Constitution of the United States of America has a provision for the calling of a constitutional convention, whereby delegates of the states are summoned to a special meeting to amend or draft the constitution. This process has never occurred, save for the original drafting of the constitution, although it almost happened in several cases. The US Constitution also has provisions for constitutional amendments to be approved by state conventions of the people. This occurred to ratify the original constitution and to adopt the twenty-first amendment, which ended prohibition.

Con is a common abbreviation for convention, and some conventions (such as DEF CON and Gen Con) use it in their names.

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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.