Noun

(en noun)

A meeting or gathering.

The convention was held in Geneva.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=May 30 , author=Katherine Stewart , title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.}}

A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates

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

The convening of a formal meeting

A formal agreement, contract or pact

(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

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

A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.

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placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
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(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)

''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol

The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.

Noun

(en noun)

An oath or affirmation; a vow.

A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.

* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), pages 547–548

He pur?ued Andrew Hou?toun upon his promi?e , to give him the like Sallary for the next year, and in ab?ence obtained him to be holden as confe?t and Decerned.

Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.

* Washington Irving

My native country was full of youthful promise .

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), chapter=1

, title=(The China Governess) citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}

(computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has been assigned a value.

(obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.

* Bible, Acts i. 4

He commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father.