0 a building or group of buildings where large groups of people gather for meetings or events --
1 a large building that is designed for holding large conferences in: --
The projected convention centre, built on inner city slum clearance land, plans to employ some 2,000 or 3,000 people and to offer conference facilities to 10,000 delegates at a time.
We have a 2,000-seat convention centre.
A convention centre, which includes a hotel complex, is being built for £120 million.
We have built an international convention centre and an international exhibition centre.
When completed, the convention centre will generate an additional income of £38·2 million a year at 1983 prices.
But my own preferred option would be for a major convention centre to be housed within the dome.
The answer is apparently a convention centre that will bring in some rich people from abroad.
If we had a proper convention centre it would attract conventions from abroad and also persuade conventions from this country not to go abroad.
