The phrase "a conventional definition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a widely accepted or standard meaning of a term or concept.
Example: "In academic writing, it is important to start with a conventional definition of key terms to ensure clarity."
Alternatives: "a standard definition" or "a typical definition".
Because some of it resists such a conventional definition.
The consensus among many leading tax policy analysts who hew to a conventional definition of small business is that few, if any, of the 6 million small-business owners would see an increase in taxes under an Obama presidency.
It follows that the Euclidean axiom of distance is not exclusively a conventional definition in the linguistic sense, rather, it is a "disguised definition" or an "apparent hypothesis".
A conventional definition of the business portfolio is that it is the collection of businesses and products that make up the company.
A conventional definition of the business portfolio is that is it the collection of businesses and products that make up the firm.
Thus, it emerges that instead of a so-called "master transcription regulator" by a conventional definition, RBP-J serves to focus the macrophage responses on certain modules appropriate for the current microenvironment and cellular context.
$20. THE hapless, nameless narrator of "My Happy Life," Lydia Millet's strange, slender and incandescent third novel, has not enjoyed, by any conventional definition, a happy life.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet And yet there is no denying that the military overthrew President Morsi in a coup, according to any conventional definition of the term.
Stories like Mr. Haase's are becoming more common: a growing number of Americans who are not Jewish by any conventional definition -- by traditional or the Reform movement's patrilineal standards -- describe themselves as in some way Jewish.
And yet there is no denying that the military overthrew President Morsi in a coup, according to any conventional definition of the term.
Some works aren't drawings at all, by any conventional definition.
