English

Car showroom

Noun

showroom ‎(plural showrooms)

1. A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.
2. (dated) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

Hypernyms

• room

Translations

Verb

showroom ‎(third-person singular simple present showrooms, present participle showrooming, simple past and past participle showroomed)

1. 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 English

Noun

showroom m ‎(plural showrooms)

1. showroom

Spanish

Noun

showroom m ‎(plural showrooms)

1. showroom