showroom

English

Car showroom

Wikipedia

Etymology

show +‎ room. Verb sense circa 2011.

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.

Translations

room for display of products

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陳列室 (cmn), 陈列室 (cmn) (chénlièshì)

• French: showroom (fr) m, salle d'exposition (fr) f, salle de montre (fr) f (Quebec)
• German: Ausstellungsraum (de) m, Showroom (de) f

• Japanese: ショールーム (ja) (shōrūmu)
• Russian: выставочный зал (ru) (výstavočnyj zal) m , демонстрационный зал (ru) (demonstraciónnyj zal) m , шоурум (ru) (šóurum) m , павильон (ru) (pavilʹón) m  (на вы́ставке)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-taisbeanaidh (gd) m

Verb

Wikipedia

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.