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convention

n.

An occasion at which members or delegates assemble
assembly, convocation, meeting, conference; see gathering.
Those assembled at a convention, sense 1
delegates, representatives, members, conventioneers; see committee, organization 3.
Custom
practice, habit, fashion, protocol; see custom 1, 2.
An established mode of procedure
canon, code, precept, rule; see custom 2, law 2, 3.

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Another word for convention

noun

A formal assemblage of the members of a group:
assembly, conference, congress, convocation, meeting. See assemble
A number of persons who have come or been gathered together:
assemblage, assembly, body, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convocation, crowd, gathering, group, meeting, muster, troop. (Informal) get-together. See collect
A legally binding arrangement between parties:
agreement, bond, compact², contract, covenant, pact. See agree
A formal, usually written settlement between nations:
accord, agreement, concord, pact, treaty. See agree, politics
An accepted way of doing something:
form. See usual

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When the convention met and the balloting began, the contest along these factional lines started in earnest.
A convention was signed in 1849, which secured the free navigation of the Parana and the independence of the Banda Oriental.
On the 15th of July, in spite of the order of the Convention, he was brought before the criminal tribunal of the Rhone-et-Loire, condemned to death, and guillotined the next day.
In accordance with the understanding arrived at, the various Australasian parliaments appointed delegates to attend a national convention to be held in Sydney, and on the 2nd March 1891 the convention held its first meeting.
The convention met in Adelaide on the 22nd of March 1897, and, after drafting a bill for the consideration of the various parliaments, adjourned until the 2nd of September.

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