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Meaning of conventional weaponry

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

conventional

Pronunciation:/kənˈvɛnʃənl/

noun

Definitions

  1. 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

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

  2. Ordinary, commonplace.

    Example: They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.

  3. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.

  4. Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.