convention

plural conventions

1. countableuncountableA meeting or gathering.

   The convention was held in Geneva.

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   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.

   2012 May 30, Katherine Stewart, “How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021

2. countableuncountableA formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

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

3. countableuncountableThe convening of a formal meeting.
4. countableuncountableA formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
5. countableuncountableinternational lawA treaty or supplement to such.

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

6. countableuncountableA practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

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

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

   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.)

   1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127

   Suppose that Smith’s itch is that little bit worse than Jones’s. Won’t he scratch with a little bit more vigour? Or perhaps the social conventions in place prevent that difference from showing up — not all societies permit scratching where it itches.

   1997, David Braddon-Mitchell, Frank Jackson, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31