For this reason, they are prevalent in institutional settings, such as business conventions or large parties.

My husband was going to a business convention in Rome.

Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.

During this time the modern business convention was emerging and large corporations began to see conventions as a good place to do business.

We see important social institutions like dinner parties, leisure activities, business conventions, political campaigns, and churches.

Imagine a business convention where no one looks bored, everyone wears a T-shirt and the oldest entrepreneurs are 15.

As of 2011, North Carolina's largest business convention drew 80,000 from 110 countries and contributes $1.1 billion to the state's economy.

Game Connection is a business convention of the video games industry.

Local prostitutes were kept very busy during the business convention last week.

Even the local Vancouver newspapers looked at the meeting more like a business convention than something that might affect global stability.