expo
Americannoun
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expos
plural
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a world's fair or international exposition.
Expo '67 in Montreal.
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any exhibition or show.
an annual computer expo.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of expo
First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening
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This spring, however, the casino offered an even stranger spectacle when a Bitcoin convention filled the expo hall.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
However, listening to Saylor make his sales pitch to the men filling the expo hall, I understood why people kept giving him money.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
All the delegates saw the smoke as they arrived at the expo centre on the edge of the city.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
One participant from Russia, who declined to provide his name or affiliation, told AFP he was at the Shenzhen expo to look for drone "interceptors", without giving more details.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Things got clearer after she took him and a handful of students to a union expo, where he learned about pipe fitting and other skilled trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
The 63-year-old leader talks almost daily on television, visiting trade expos promoting tourism and highlighting his government’s efforts to stimulate new industries to compensate for the collapse of the lifeblood oil sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
In the future, he also hopes to sell the product at pet expos and possibly at wine conferences.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
Past expositions expos have been credited with inspiring or popularizing such groundbreaking inventions as the light bulb, the Ferris wheel and the Eiffel Tower, which was built for the 1889 exposition in Paris.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
The south hangar remains active for shoots and has been used for numerous car commercials, a Disneyland ad, car expos and other events such as film screenings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Journalism, xxv; wom. in, 154;early women writers, 295;women in at Paris expos.,
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
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