{
    "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."
}