Usually means: Agreed-upon norms guiding behavior, practices.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. conventions: Merriam-Webster
  2. conventions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. conventions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Convention's, Conventions, convention's, conventions: Wordnik
  5. conventions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. conventions: Wiktionary
  7. conventions: Dictionary.com
  8. conventions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Conventions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Conventions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CONVENTIONS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. conventions: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. conventions: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Conventions: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Conventions: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (convention)

noun:  A meeting or gathering.
noun:  A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
noun:  The convening of a formal meeting.
noun:  A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
noun:  (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
noun:  A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
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