different between convention vs convenience

English

Etymology

Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventi? (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveni? (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?v?n.??n/, /?k?n?v?n.??n/

Noun

convention (plural conventions)

1. A meeting or gathering.
2. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

3. The convening of a formal meeting.
4. A formal agreement, contract or pact.
5. (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

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.)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conventi?, conventi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.v??.sj??/

Noun

convention f (plural conventions)

1. convention, agreement
2. convention (formal meeting)

3. convention (conventionally standardised choice)

Derived terms

• convention collective

Related terms

• conventionalisme m
• conventionnel
• conventionner
• convenir

Further reading

• “convention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). Doublet of convenance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?vi?n??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?vinj?ns/
• Hyphenation: con?ve?nience

Noun

convenience (countable and uncountable, plural conveniences)

1. The quality of being convenient.

   Synonym: amenity
2. Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
3. A convenient time.

4. (chiefly Britain) Ellipsis of public convenience: a public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

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Verb

convenience (third-person singular simple present conveniences, present participle conveniencing, simple past and past participle convenienced)

1. To make convenient

   These are equally viable times and I propose we alternate between the two times in order to convenience as many people as possible.

Further reading

• convenience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• convenience at OneLook Dictionary Search