Convention
Convention noun - A coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose.
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Delegates and convention are semantically related. in conference topic. In some cases you can use "Delegates" instead a noun "Convention".
Delegates
Convention and delegates are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Convention" instead a noun "Delegates".
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Carter secured his nomination in the last brokered convention to date.note Walter Mondale went into the 1984 Democratic convention without a majority of delegates, but the second place challenger, Gary Hart, made no serious effort to contest his nomination at the convention.
Source: Useful Notes / Jimmy Carter - Theoretically he was the Number Two of King George VI (since the Monarch, by convention, delegates power to the Government of the day) but that was eccentric British Nostalgia rather than a serious governmental arrangement.
Source: Number Two - His plan was to persuade delegates at the convention in San Francisco to change their votes to him, based on polls he had had done that showed lots of Republicans prepared to vote for Johnson if Goldwater was the Republican nominee.
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