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noun. A formal meeting of members, representatives, or delegates, as of a political party, fraternal society, profession, or industry.

noun. The body of persons attending such an assembly.

noun. An agreement between states, sides, or military forces, especially an international agreement dealing with a specific subject, such as the treatment of prisoners of war.

noun. General agreement on or acceptance of certain practices or attitudes.

noun. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

noun. A widely used and accepted device or technique, as in drama, literature, or painting.

noun. The act of coming together; coalition; union.

noun. A gathering of persons; a meeting; an assembly.

noun. Specifically A formal, recognized, or statutory meeting or assembly of men for civil or religious purposes; particularly, an assembly of delegates or representatives for consultation on important concerns, civil, political, or religious.

noun. An agreement or contract between two parties; specifically, in diplomacy

noun. General agreement; tacit understanding; common consent, as the foundation of a custom, an institution, or the like.

noun. A customary rule, regulation, or requirement, or such rules collectively; something more or less arbitrarily established, or required by common consent or opinion; a conventionality; a precedent.

noun. In civil law: In general, the agreement of several persons, who by a common act of the will determine their legal relations, for the purpose either of creating an obligation or of extinguishing one. in a narrower sense, the agreement of several persons in one and the same act of will resulting in an obligation between them.—

noun. In the fine arts, a generalization of nature which expresses certain phases of the actual and suppresses others, according to custom or tradition.

noun. In card-playing, a play adopted for convenience: as, in bridge, leading a heart when the pone doubles a no-trumper, or scoring spades without playing when the make is not doubled and the score is not 20 or better.

noun. The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

noun. General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.

noun. A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

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 or pact

noun. A treaty or supplement to such.

noun. A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.

noun. (diplomacy) an international agreement

noun. something regarded as a normative example

noun. a large formal assembly

noun. orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

noun. the act of convening

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