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exhibition

[ek-suh-bish-uhn]

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noun

an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.

a public display, as of the work of artists or artisans, the products of farms or factories, the skills of performers, or objects of general interest.

an exposition or large fair of extended duration, as a world's fair.

British. an allowance given to a student in a college, university, or school, usually upon the result of a competitive examination.

Medicine/Medical Obsolete. administration, as of a remedy.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English exhibicion < Late Latin exhibitiōn- (stem of exhibitiō) a presenting. See exhibit, -ion

Related forms

non·ex·hi·bi·tion, noun

pre·ex·hi·bi·tion, noun

re·ex·hi·bi·tion, noun

self-ex·hi·bi·tion, noun

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Must have a significant exhibition history, and/or achievement in publications and scholarship.

Among the lessons to be learned at this exhibition is that not all attributions are necessarily for ever.

More startling than the displays themselves are some of the individuals walking the floor at the exhibition.

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Must have a significant exhibition history, and/or achievement in publications and scholarship.

Among the lessons to be learned at this exhibition is that not all attributions are necessarily for ever.

More startling than the displays themselves are some of the individuals walking the floor at the exhibition.

Visit our photo gallery of some of the pieces from the exhibition.

Exhibition daylilies don't normally bloom as prolifically as simpler yellow ones.

The collective exhibition will be partially set up using tablets to show to the public these new ways of making art.

Two new books and a exhibition offer the opening salvo in what will be a continuing barrage.

There are many more modest objects in the exhibition.

The line between exhibition space and viewer space is sometimes clear and sometimes not.

Not every art exhibition doubles as a summer vacation planner.

All videos made during the exhibition will be on view inside the gallery.

The fair is a microcosm of international publishing, and a glance at its nine vast, hangarlike exhibition halls spoke.

Film exhibition was until recently a humdrum business.

The exhibition is free and open to anyone to contribute, whether you're a child, parent or a creative spirit.

The exhibition covers a marvelously entertaining range of idiom and thought.

In the exhibition halls and corridors of many international higher-education meetings these days, the same question keeps coming.

Yet the city is now hosting a splendid exhibition that reaffirms the important link.

Come view a stunning exhibition of the stories that shape our world.

As a new exhibition makes clear, what they experienced would.

Learn about field trips and download exhibition resources for educators.

In addition to the exhibition, there is also an illustrated companion book and a comprehensive online version of the exhibition.

See pictures of the exhibition space after the jump.

It can be a simple matter to preface the exhibition with a disclaimer that explains the controvery.

The exhibition encourages the viewer to engage not only with the art works but also with their extraordinary historic setting.

The exhibition features the work of nine contemporary photographers, spanning the past three decades.

Their final exhibition of student work exceeded in quality any past year display of work by a teacherless student arts club.

After logging in visitors will arrive in an atrium displaying a map of the exhibition with the names of participating galleries.

The purpose was to allow the tens of thousands of exhibitors to stay in touch with their headquarters from the exhibition floor.

Out of its work came a harrowing exhibition of photographs and accounts by survivors.

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World English Dictionary

exhibition (ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃən)

—n
1.	a public display of art, products, skills, activities, etc: a judo exhibition
2.	the act of exhibiting or the state of being exhibited
3.	make an exhibition of oneself to behave so foolishly in public that one excites notice or ridicule
4.	(Brit) an allowance or scholarship awarded to a student at a university or school

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Word Origin & History

exhibition

early 15c., from O.Fr. exhibicion, from L. exhibitionem (nom. exhibitio), from exhibere "to show, display," lit. "to hold out," from ex- "out" + habere "to hold" (see habit).

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Idioms & Phrases

exhibition

see make an exhibition of oneself.

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