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Noun
Definition: 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
Definition: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
Definition: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
Definition: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
Definition: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
Definition: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
Definition: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
Definition: Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.