English Dictionary

convention

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈvɛn.ʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A meeting or gathering. / A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates. / The convening of a formal meeting. / A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.

日本語の意味

（公式な）会議、集会 / 正式な審議のために召集された会議・議会 / 公式な会談または集合 / 正式な合意、契約、取り決め、または規約

She attended the annual convention to present her research.

彼女は研究を発表するために年次会議に参加した。

意味（1）

A meeting or gathering.

The convention was held in Geneva.

意味（2）

A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.

意味（3）

The convening of a formal meeting.

意味（4）

A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.

意味（5）

(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.

意味（6）

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

In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re- placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below: (40) VP → V AP (PP) (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be optional.)

conventions （ plural ）