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conventions
noun(con-ven-tion)
agreement, contract
conventions
noun(con-ven-tion)
an agreement between states for regulation of matters affecting all of them
conventions
noun(con-ven-tion)
a compact between opposing commanders especially concerning prisoner exchange or armistice
conventions
noun(con-ven-tion)
an assembly of persons gathered in response to or in protest against another assembly : a competing or opposing convention
conventions
noun(con-ven-tion)
one of a series of agreements concerning the treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, wounded, and dead in battle first made at Geneva, Switzerland in 1864 and subsequently accepted in later revisions by most nations

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