0 a large formal meeting of people who do a particular job or have a similar interest, or a large meeting for a political party: --
the national Democratic convention
1 a usual or accepted way of behaving, especially in social situations, often following an old way of thinking or a custom in one particular society: --
2 a formal agreement between country leaders, politicians, and states on a matter that involves them all: --
3 a way of doing something or appearing that is considered usual and correct: --
4 a large meeting of a group of people who are involved in the same type of work or who have similar interests: --
the Democratic/Republican national convention
a Star Trek convention
the Dairy Association’s annual convention
Reconstructing ancient viewing conventions has been made much easier by studies of this kind.
The conventions and borders of art practice, sonic or visual, are defined enough to withstand an emotional onslaught.
When a party failed to find common ground upon which all their members could stand, these conventions often broke up as the losers bolted.
In general, they conform to the pictorial conventions of urban representation as defined by guide-book illustrations.
In addressing larger questions, they attend to the specicities, the conventions, generic constraints, and traditions of the arts they study.
In other words, it is because conventions are not reducible to particular structures of feeling that they can be a vehicle for articulating these structures.
Carter compares this and other administrative conventions to various occupational diseases at the start and end of the twentieth century.
However, the close call may have convinced party leaders not to concede as much ground to civil rights proponents at future conventions.
