showroom
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Noun
showroom (plural showrooms)
- A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.
- (dated) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.
Hypernyms
Translations
room for display of products
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Verb
showroom (third-person singular simple present showrooms, present participle showrooming, simple past and past participle showroomed)
- 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.
- This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.
Usage notes
Especially used in nominalized form showrooming.
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English
Noun
showroom m (plural showrooms)
Spanish
Noun
showroom m (plural showrooms)
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