A mortgage not insured by FHA or guarantee by the VA or Farmers Home Administration (FMHA).

Refers to standard agricultural practices widespread in the industry. Can include use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, "mono-cropping," antibiotics, hormones and other agribusiness approaches. Conventional farming in the U.S. may also include the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market prohibits the sale of any products known to contain GMOs.

Any mortgage that is not insured or guaranteed by the federal government.

Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.

rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

By agreement or contract; by an accepted rule, usage, etc.; by a generally agreed principle or practice.

following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"

A transformer that has no protective equipment (fuses, breakers, arresters). They are used when the protective equipment is provided by a fuse cutout attached to the pole beside the transformer.

Grip used mostly by beginners, in which the fingers are fully inserted into the ball, providing a firmer hold and better control.

(weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"

Tractor with the engine in front of the cab.

Type of truck - engine out front of driver.

No special ecological growing practices, allowing for the probability of agri-chemicals to be used.

As used in this report, referring to "mainstream" or "orthodox" medical treatment. These terms are used interchangeably, with no intended distinctions among them.

Standard types of allografts, commonly available from any tissue processor

Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.

represented in simplified or symbolic form

Gas produced under present-day technology at a cost not greater than the current market value.

An exploration possibility recognised as normal by most petroleum companies, and in accordance with current thought. Also refers to oil and gas other than Coal Seam Gas.

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.