Exhibition vs Showroom - What's the difference?
exhibition | showroom |
An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
A large scale public showing of objects or products.
(UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
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.
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.
As nouns the difference between exhibition and showroom
is that exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited while showroom is a room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.As a verb showroom is
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.exhibition
English
(wikipedia exhibition)Noun
(en noun)- There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
- a boat exhibition
- He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.
Derived terms
* exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneselfshowroom
English
(wikipedia showroom)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(showrooming) (en verb)- This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.