conventional
IPA: kʌnvˈɛnʃʌnʌɫ
noun
- (finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
adjective
- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- Ordinary, commonplace.
- Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- (weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
- (agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
- (bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
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Examples of "conventional" in Sentences
- In theory, an effort is made in "conventional" wars to be discriminating in the infliction of war deaths.
- The term conventional tillage refers to land preparation in which there is maximum disturbance of the soil structure.
- In this report the term conventional energy is used to refer to fossil fuel, nuclear energy, and large-scale hydropower.
- It is they who make her undergo the discomforts or miseries of what we call conventional life or bully her into exile or death.
- What attention has been paid, primarily as part of what I term the conventional account, has it that the Framers were divided about how accessible search remedies should be.
- In the speech, Mr. Bullard argued for a return to what he called the "conventional wisdom" that monetary policy, not fiscal policy, should be the primary tool for stabilizing the economy.
- ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, many people say that acupuncture does wonders for their back, and some people have expressed frustration with what you call conventional treatments, with physical therapy, with drugs.
- In both the paper and the book she looks to the immediate legal circumstances surrounding a prosecution of a knight to find the origin of the ritual murder accusation (which she describes as a conventional rather than novel narrative, reasoned and effective; she sees little of anyone but the upper classes in it).
- Now, in order to clear up some concepts, I want to tell you that when the term conventional tons of fuel is used -- sometimes the terms tons of petroleum and conventional tons are used in order for the public to understand the terns the same way all of us learned them in order to understand what a conventional ton meant -- it means 100,300 kilocalories.
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