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{ "term": "convention", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "academic": true, "ox5000": true, "cefr": "b2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "the way in which something is done that most people in a society expect and consider to be polite or the right way to do it", "sensetop": "by convention", "cefr": "b2", "examples": [ { "text": "the rigid social conventions of Victorian Britain" }, { "text": "She is a young woman who enjoys flouting conventions." }, { "text": "By convention the deputy leader was always a woman.", "contextForm": "by convention" }, { "text": "Convention demands that a club member should resign in such a situation." }, { "text": "By convention, planets are named after Roman gods." }, { "text": "By convention, the King gives the Royal Assent to all measures passed by Parliament." }, { "text": "Convention dictated that such trade agreements were only released when both parties consented to their release." }, { "text": "He had the freedom of spirit to cut through convention." }, { "text": "Her work refuses any concession to polite conventions of ‘good taste’." }, { "text": "In a surprising break with convention, she wore a red wedding dress." }, { "text": "Life with the Leighs was not hidebound by rules or convention." }, { "text": "No young politician can afford to flout convention in this way." }, { "text": "She knew that she had broken an important social convention." }, { "text": "They followed the Greek convention of pinning gifts of money to the bride's dress." }, { "text": "Here we decided to break with convention." }, { "text": "The handshake is a social convention." }, { "text": "They showed a refreshing disrespect for convention." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["accepted", "established", "long-standing"], "… of conventions": ["set"], "verb + convention": ["adhere to", "conform to", "follow"], "convention + verb": ["demand something", "dictate something"], "preposition": ["according to convention", "by convention"], "phrases": ["a break with convention", "a matter of convention"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "a large meeting of the members of a profession, a political party, etc.", "cefr": "b2", "examples": [ { "text": "to hold a convention" }, { "text": "the Democratic Party Convention *(= to elect a candidate for president)*" }, { "text": "Dallas is one of the top convention cities in the United States." }, { "text": "He addressed the annual Republican convention." }, { "text": "She was at the Democratic convention." }, { "text": "journalists reporting from the convention floor" }, { "text": "The party's annual convention will be held on April 6." } ], "synonyms": "conference", "collocations": { "adjective": ["annual", "international", "national"], "verb + convention": ["have", "hold", "host"], "convention + verb": ["take place"], "convention + noun": ["centre/center", "hall", "floor"], "preposition": ["at a/the convention"], "phrases": ["delegates to a convention"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "an official agreement between countries or leaders", "cefr": "c1", "examples": [ { "text": "the Geneva convention" }, { "text": "the United Nations convention on the rights of the child" }, { "text": "Most countries have adhered to the convention." }, { "text": "Over 60 countries have yet to ratify the climate convention." }, { "text": "The convention established procedures for the transport of toxic waste." }, { "text": "This is forbidden under the Convention on Human Rights." }, { "text": "This practice breaches the arms convention." }, { "text": "a convention governing the conditions under which mining is permitted" }, { "text": "the 1869 convention between Turkey and Persia" }, { "text": "the 1951 United Nations Convention on refugees" }, { "text": "the Berne Convention for the Conservation of European Wildlife" }, { "text": "the UN convention against torture" } ], "topics": ["Discussion and agreement", "Politics"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["global", "international", "European"], "verb + convention": ["adopt", "ratify", "sign"], "convention + verb": [ "apply", "govern something", "establish something" ], "preposition": [ "under a/the convention", "convention against", "convention between" ], "phrases": ["a breach of a convention"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "a traditional method or style in literature, art or the theatre", "cefr": "c1", "examples": [ { "text": "the conventions of Greek tragedy" }, { "text": "It's an established convention that the part is played by a woman." }, { "text": "The novel refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of 19th century realism." }, { "text": "The novel conforms to the conventions of nineteenth-century realism." }, { "text": "He challenged the conventions of painting." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["accepted", "established", "long-standing"], "… of conventions": ["set"], "verb + convention": ["adhere to", "conform to", "follow"], "convention + verb": ["demand something", "dictate something"], "preposition": ["according to convention", "by convention"], "phrases": ["a break with convention", "a matter of convention"] } } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/kənˈvenʃn/", "audio": "xc/convention/xconvention__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/kənˈvenʃn/", "audio": "xc/convention/xconvention__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in sense (2)): via Old French from Latin conventio(n-) ‘meeting, covenant’, from the verb convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’. Sense (1) dates from the late 18th cent." }