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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
showroom
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Yeoman has a car showroom, offices, forecourt and storage accommodation in Darlington.
▪ Skyscrapers are sprouting, shiny car showrooms are opening in place of old state shops.
▪ But this isn't a car showroom.
▪ He used to own a garage, that one with the big car showrooms on the High Street.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A memento of your visit may be purchased in the small showroom.
▪ For more information or a copy of our brochure, please visit our showrooms or telephone /3220.
▪ Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co.
▪ Melinda says she can sell her services 40 percent cheaper than when she had a showroom.
▪ Right: Anne in the Anta showroom with an appropriate reminder of the Highlands of home.
▪ She paused just inside her showroom, looking round with a sense of achievement.
▪ The Detroit-based company set out last year to close some poorly performing showrooms and move others to better locations.
▪ Up to 40 percent off showroom suites.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Showroom

Showroom \Show"room`\, n. A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
showroom

"room for displaying furniture for sale," 1610s, from show (v.) + room (n.).

Wiktionary
showroom

n. 1 A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products. 2 (context dated English) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. vb. To inspect merchandise in a physical store, then purchase the identical product from an online merchant; to use a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant.

WordNet
showroom

n. an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed; "in England a showroom is called a salesroom" [syn: salesroom, saleroom]

Wikipedia
Showroom

A showroom is a large space used to display products or show entertainment.

Usage examples of "showroom".

He sold foreign sports cars there, and had another showroom in New York City.

New Yorker who operated his branch showroom only in the summer, was selling a car to an urbane and tweedy gentleman as Kiah walked in.

Kennard Pelk, a member of LA in good standing and our chief of police, came into my showroom to complain about a bargain storm window that he had bought from a company that had since gone out of business.

Again, prior to Einstein, no one would have questioned that the length Jim measures in this indirect way would agree exactly with the length Slim carefully measured when the car sat motionless on the showroom floor.

While in the showroom, as we mentioned, Slim had carefully measured the length of his new car with a tape measure.

It, too, was glass-fronted, so he had an open view into the showroom itself, where the cars were so arranged that his view could take in the main doors and any customer entering.

Then, in the evening Andrew has invited the showroom staff and their wives.

Uncle Sandor had bought the car new in 1953 and had kept it in showroom condition.

Sophie stormed into the showroom, a flushed, yet grim look on her face.

The skull-capped men at the showroom counter have sussed out this much: Garvey Violet is stacked well behind the counter, so it can only be purchased, never shoplifted.

Their acting out inside the showroom is more covert: stealing fake fruit and scribbling tiny tags here and there on the cardboard displays.

I walked onstage that fateful night, to regale the baffled masses with my illusions, I felt her presence in the grand showroom of the Venetian Hotel.

Daisy waggled her unmanicured fingers in farewell and dashed out of the showroom without looking back.

I do know that she worked for that magician, Valerian something-or-other, in the showroom at the Venetian Hotel.

Imagine my amazement in finding him not only awake, but standing on the darkened stage of the showroom in the Venetian Hotel, examining the carriage I used in my magic act.