convention

[kənˈvenʃn]

Definition:
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.

Use 'convention' in a sentence:

1. We go offstage and come back for the convention of the encore.
2. It is a very important academic convention.
3. Since the Convention was drawn up international opinion has begun to move against it.
4. He sets at naught every convention of society.
5. Freed from the bonds of convention and the fear of what others may think, the mind responds with new solutions.
6. Such explanations, however, illuminate neither the source of this curious convention nor the reason for its popularity.
7. The convention was a debacle.
8. The action is an open violation of the Vienna Convention.
9. According to the right-hand rule, they would be spinning, by our convention, anticlockwise.
10. The BIO recently held a convention which included sessions to coach lawyers on the shifting landscape for patents.
11. This convention expanded to discussions of the possibility of all the British colonies uniting into one nation.
12. The party hired her to stage-manage their convention.
13. It's obviously important to get as much mileage out of the convention as possible.
14. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention were realists.
15. They invited Ken Kesey to come and speak at the convention, at the teach-in.
16. Many countries are signatories to/ of the Berne Convention.
17. One common convention for naming service uses upper case letters to separate words in the name of the service.
18. The president's convention speech received favourable reviews.
19. The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
20. The country seems to be violating several articles of the convention.
21. Houston was chosen as the site for the convention.
22. The Democratic convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
23. For the first time, a woman will be the keynoter at the convention this year.
24. The National Convention has promised armed support to any people who wish to rise against armed oppression.
25. Birmingham's International Convention Centre is the venue for a three-day arts festival.
26. He reacted strongly against the artistic conventions of his time.
27. I realized that here the conventions required me to make the ritual noises.
28. The country appears to be violating several articles of the convention.
29. At these conventions, executives fraternized with the key personnel of other banks.
30. Despite her wish to defy convention, she had become pregnant and married at 21.
31. The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
32. Yesterday's NEA event looked like a dress rehearsal for the Democratic convention.
33. It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to distinguish between courteous convention and individual interest.
34. By convention the deputy leader was always a woman.
35. Back in the Fifties, social convention required that males models keep their kit on.
36. In the past, choice of soul mate was limited by geography, social convention and family tradition.
37. The International Convention Centre is the venue for a three-day arts festival.
38. The Democrat convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
39. The convention called for a two-year moratorium on commercial whaling.
40. The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of last week's convention.
41. After the war, a convention was set up to frame a constitution.
42. He's determined to speak at the Democratic Convention.
43. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
44. He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.
45. All new fashion starts out as a reaction against existing convention.
46. The convention does not apply to us.
47. It's just a social convention that men don't wear skirts.
48. Article 10 of the European Convention guarantees free speech.