The difference between Agreement and Convention

When used as nouns, agreement means an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct, whereas convention means a meeting or gathering.

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  1. Agreement as a noun (countable):

    An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

    Examples:

    "to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement."

  2. Agreement as a noun (uncountable):

    A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

    Examples:

    "The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity."

  3. Agreement as a noun (uncountable, legal):

    A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  4. Agreement as a noun (uncountable, linguistics, grammar):

    Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

  5. Agreement as a noun (obsolete, chiefly, _, in the plural):

    An agreeable quality.

  1. Convention as a noun:

    A meeting or gathering.

    Examples:

    "The convention was held in Geneva."

  2. Convention as a noun:

    A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

    Examples:

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

  3. Convention as a noun:

    The convening of a formal meeting.

  4. Convention as a noun:

    A formal agreement, contract or pact.

  5. Convention as a noun (international law):

    A treaty or supplement to such.

    Examples:

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

  6. Convention as a noun:

    A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

    Examples:

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

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

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