convention : Idioms & Phrases

noun a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons

noun the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

noun an agreement first drawn up in Geneva in 1864 and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime

(Mil.), an agreement made by representatives of the great continental powers at Geneva and signed in 1864, establishing new and more humane regulation regarding the treatment of the sick and wounded and the status of those who minister to them in war. Ambulances and military hospitals are made neutral, and this condition affects physicians, chaplains, nurses, and the ambulance corps. Great Britain signed the convention in 1865.