convention center

American  

noun

1. a large civic building or group of buildings designed for conventions, industrial shows, and the like, having large unobstructed exhibit areas and often including conference rooms, hotel accommodations, restaurants, and other facilities.

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Example Sentences

San Francisco has a much larger convention center and far more hotel rooms, which organizers say is why it’s hosting so many events.

From The Wall Street Journal

He must also navigate the NFL's "Opening Night," a raucous start to Super Bowl week in which players are set loose on a convention center floor, to be bombarded with questions from hundreds of teeming journalists.

From Barron's

Seated near the stage at the Los Angeles Convention Center, a camera feeding close-up images of her face to several screens, Carey appeared genuinely surprised by an auctioneer’s description of the backstage hangout in which she’d be expected to participate next month.

From Los Angeles Times

“If you want to be a bank, just be a bank,” Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan told Armstrong during a cordial but somewhat stilted 30-minute meeting last week at the main convention center in Davos.

From The Wall Street Journal

The hotel is connected with a skyway to the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium.

From Salon