convention
惯例,公约,习俗,协定
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- : a meeting or formal assembly, as of representatives or delegates, for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.
- : U.S. Politics. a representative party assembly to nominate candidates and adopt platforms and party rules.
- : an agreement, compact, or contract.
- : an international agreement, especially one dealing with a specific matter, as postal service or copyright.
- : a rule, method, or practice established by usage; custom: the convention of showing north at the top of a map.
- : general agreement or consent; accepted usage, especially as a standard of procedure.
- : conventionalism.
- : Bridge. any of a variety of established systems or methods of bidding or playing that allows partners to convey certain information about their hands.
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It’s usually a tangle of A- through D-list celebrities, former football greats and not-so-greats, all roaming the halls of a convention hall, hawking everything from rental cars to pot supplements.
Aside from protections for health, hygiene, and other living conditions, the convention specifies that no agreement between the parties supersedes its protections while occupation continues.
I know now, though, that enough people found each other over the Internet and discovered that they shared this passion that entire conventions dedicated to furries emerged.
After three marathon meetings, the party voted Saturday to stick with its plan to hold a convention.
In February 1823, two-thirds of the state’s House of Representatives — the required quorum — passed a resolution calling for a convention to change the Illinois Constitution to legalize slavery.
Rule 16(c) was a proposed change in the rules at the 1976 Republican Convention.
The crowd inside the convention center is very white, fairly old, and presumably decently rich.
Inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is a lot of good art—but more pretty art.
Who helps build convention centers and adjacent hotels so cities can attract convention business?
“The social convention of not talking to a stranger was fairly rigid at the time,” Weber told me.
It is beyond the comprehension of any man not blinded by superstition, not warped by prejudice and old-time .