Convention is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONVENTION in dictionary:

VERB:
• The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
• General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
• A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
• 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.
• 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.
NOUN:
• an established usage
• a way in which something is usually done
• behaviour that is considered acceptable or polite to most members of a society
• an agreement between states covering particular matters, especially one less formal than a treaty
• a large meeting or conference, especially of members of a political party or a particular profession or group
• an assembly of the delegates of a political party to select candidates for office.
• a body set up by agreement to deal with a particular issue
• a meeting of Parliament without a summons from the sovereign.
• a bid or system of bidding by which the bidder tries to convey specific information about the hand to their partner, as opposed to seeking to win the auction.
• a large formal assembly
• something regarded as a normative example
• (diplomacy) an international agreement
• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
• the act of convening
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• agreement, contract; an agreement between states for regulation of matters affecting all of them; a compact between opposing commanders especially concerning prisoner exchange or armistice; a general agreement about basic principles or procedures; a principle or procedure accepted as true or correct by convention

Words related to CONVENTION

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Words that contain CONVENTION

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How to use CONVENTION in a sentence

• Let neither the Roman people blame the convention of the consuls, nor us the faith of the Roman people.
• And the hotel was crammed, because there was a Convention of some sort.
• This tendency was well shown by the action of the free Negroes through their delegates in the convention assembled in Philadelphia in 1830.
• The effect of the convention on my own mind was most salutary.
• A few days after the Greenville convention met, the Legislature of North Carolina passed an act in reference to the revolt.
• The convention assembled accordingly, Logan being one of the members, while it was presided over by Col.
• A General Convention would be necessary to adjust its terms.
• This time we are to have Monday, too, as a special holiday, because of a great Whig convention which is turning the city upside-down.
• She will unquestionably call a convention as soon as it is ascertained that a majority of the electors will support Lincoln.
• They had stood together in years of struggle to start the movement for a new constitution, to steer it through the convention, and to force it on the States.
• Chase retained until the action of the convention in June the hope that he might through the influence of this group secure the Presidency.
• The platform of the Republican party, adopted at the national convention in St.
• The result of the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention is a highly creditable instrument.
• Upon this the old antislavery veteran felt himself agrieved, and, taking up his hat, marched out of the convention.
• We are informed by the public papers, that the late constitution of France, formally notified to us, is suspended, and a new convention called.
• King suggested that the journals of the Convention should be either destroyed, or deposited in the custody of the President.
• The French convention was laid before the Senate December the 16th.
• Baldwin reminded him of the following fact which passed in the grand convention.
• By this time the convention itself was not only presented to the commons, but also published for the information of the people.
• Taylor, the Paisley delegate to the convention, and Messrs.
• All groups, all isolated believers, as well as all local communities already possessing Assemblies, will henceforth share in the election of Convention delegates.
• He presided over the meeting, and delegates were elected to a National Convention to be held at Buffalo, which nominated Van Buren and Adams for President and Vice-President.
• When I got back to the next meeting of the convention, I made known to them what I had done.
• On August 25th Protestantism was proclaimed and Catholicism suppressed in Scotland by a convention of states assembled without the assent of the absent Queen.
• The fifth Vice-President, Elbridge Gerry, had been a prominent member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
• The period of twenty years was proposed by some gentleman from the North, I think, and many members of the Convention from the South opposed it as being too long.
• Stone is very much pleased over the result of the County Democratic Convention, the defeat of Dunphy giving him particular gratification.
• The cattle convention, which was then over, was conspicuous by the absence of all Northern buyers.
• A proposition is pending to revive the convention, that it may be able to do more complete justice.
• When the Convention assembled it was found that while the Transvaal was generally in favour of submission, the Orange River Colony was still implacable.
• Her cousin, Sarah Anthony Burtis, had acted as secretary of the convention.
• I shall miss the Washington convention, where I am so badly needed.
• There was but one way to save the situation, and that was to call a second convention.

Similar words containing NVEN without suffix tion and without prefix co

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