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My R&D friends at work went off to an exposition where, as is common
practice, they demonstrated their new product not only in the exhibition
hall but also in a "demo suite" elsewhere in the hotel.
Now they are back and geared up to present further demos here at the
plant. They have allocated a small room and put a sign on the
door saying, naturally enough, "demo suite."
I know that in everyday English a suite must consist of more than one
room. Does anyone know if there is any justification for an exception
in the case of a demo suite? Or is that phrase not a special item of jargon
that has any impact, if only one room is involved, on "how suite it is"?
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