demonstration model

British  

noun

1. a nearly new product, such as a car or washing machine, that has been used only to demonstrate its performance by a dealer and is offered for sale at a discount

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Example Sentences

A demonstration model in New York City had failed, but Glasgow, Scotland, and Budapest, Hungary, had successfully started subways the year before.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2022

There, a demonstration model, a towering network of tanks and pipes, fed by CO2 tanks, turns waste gas into solid carbon particles.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2021

It was a half-scale demonstration model of the LMH-1, the airship that the company has been quietly developing for the past twenty-five years.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

Her mother was a yoga teacher and she started doing it when she was seven, often acting as a demonstration model for the class.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2013

They proved that he'd bought an old obsolete Odin rocket from one of the small colleges in the Midwest—one that the Army had sold them as a demonstration model for their rocket engineering classes.

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