Usually means: Commonly accepted, traditional, standard method.
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  1. conventional: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. conventional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conventional: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conventional: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conventional: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conventional, conventional: Wordnik
  7. conventional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conventional: Wiktionary
  9. conventional: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conventional: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conventional: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. conventional: Dictionary.com
  13. conventional: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Conventional: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Conventional: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. conventional: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. conventional: Rhymezone
  18. Conventional: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. conventional: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. conventional: Free Dictionary
  21. conventional: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. conventional: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. conventional: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. conventional: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conventional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)

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  1. conventional: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See conventionalism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
adjective:  Ordinary, commonplace.
adjective:  Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
adjective:  (weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
adjective:  (agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
adjective:  (bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
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.

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