"show flat" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "show flats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "show flat (plural show flats)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Committee for Privileges and Conduct, Stationery Office, The conduct of Baroness Uddin",
          "text": "It was a show flat. The living room windows have a heavy curtain. The bathroom does not have an outside window. There is no glass in the front door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Yujing Fun, Cloaking White-Collar Crime in Hong Kong's Property Sector",
          "text": "Regardless of where the show flat is, developers have come up with techniques to make the flats look a lot larger than they actually are.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Véronique Dupont, David Jordhus-Lier, Catherine Sutherland, The Politics of Slums in the Global South",
          "text": "A show flat was built in the premises of the school run by the mediating NGO. For the DDA engineer interviewed, the show flat was a way to explain the housing project to Kathputli Colony's residents. The explanations provided by a manager from the private firm stressed another point: the purpose of the show flat was to present it to the DDA for its approval, and not to elicit residents' views.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "built",
          "built"
        ],
        [
          "decorate",
          "decorate"
        ],
        [
          "furnish",
          "furnish"
        ],
        [
          "flat",
          "flat"
        ],
        [
          "example",
          "example"
        ],
        [
          "rent",
          "rent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK) A newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "show flat"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "show flats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "show flat (plural show flats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Committee for Privileges and Conduct, Stationery Office, The conduct of Baroness Uddin",
          "text": "It was a show flat. The living room windows have a heavy curtain. The bathroom does not have an outside window. There is no glass in the front door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Yujing Fun, Cloaking White-Collar Crime in Hong Kong's Property Sector",
          "text": "Regardless of where the show flat is, developers have come up with techniques to make the flats look a lot larger than they actually are.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Véronique Dupont, David Jordhus-Lier, Catherine Sutherland, The Politics of Slums in the Global South",
          "text": "A show flat was built in the premises of the school run by the mediating NGO. For the DDA engineer interviewed, the show flat was a way to explain the housing project to Kathputli Colony's residents. The explanations provided by a manager from the private firm stressed another point: the purpose of the show flat was to present it to the DDA for its approval, and not to elicit residents' views.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented."
      ],
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          "built"
        ],
        [
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          "decorate"
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          "furnish",
          "furnish"
        ],
        [
          "flat",
          "flat"
        ],
        [
          "example",
          "example"
        ],
        [
          "rent",
          "rent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK) A newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "show flat"
}