CEFR B1

showroom

noun

Meaning

showroom means a room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products. It can have more than one sense, so use the alternate meanings and examples to choose the meaning that matches your sentence.

Examples

This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.
The article uses showroom to mean a room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.

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showroom (B1)

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈʃoʊˌɹum/

Definition

Examples

This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.
The article uses showroom to mean a room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.
The teacher asked students to find showroom in the reading.

How to Use showroom

a/the showroom (noun pattern): Use an article when the noun is countable in context. — "The article mentioned a showroom."
showroom in context (usage pattern): Use surrounding words to choose the correct sense. — "We checked showroom in context before translating it."

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