brokered convention

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noun U.S. Politics.

a party convention in which many delegates are pledged to favorite sons who use their blocs of votes to bargain with leading candidates who lack a majority of delegate support.

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How to use brokered convention in a sentence

Rule 16(c) was a proposed change in the rules at the 1976 Republican Convention.
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The crowd inside the convention center is very white, fairly old, and presumably decently rich.
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Inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is a lot of good art—but more pretty art.
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Who helps build convention centers and adjacent hotels so cities can attract convention business?
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“The social convention of not talking to a stranger was fairly rigid at the time,” Weber told me.
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It is beyond the comprehension of any man not blinded by superstition, not warped by prejudice and old-time convention.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The French convention decreed that no quarters be given to British and Hanoverian soldiers.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The armed Parisians again assembled with cannon around the convention, and demanded the arrest of the Brissotine party.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
A convention of delegates to revise the constitution of New York met at Albany.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Madame Roland, in the name of her husband, drew up for the Convention the plan of a republic as a substitute for the throne.
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