construction
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
construction/kənˈstrʌkʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of constructing.
■ the industry of erecting buildings.
- 2 an interpretation or explanation.
– derivatives
constructional adjective,
constructionally adverb.
constructional adjective,
constructionally adverb.
'construction' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablative absolute
- absolute
- anacoluthon
- ancient lights
- architect
- as
- because
- bored
- bricolage
- build
- cable
- caisson
- cantilever
- centring
- cofferdam
- constructive
- construe
- context
- falsework
- fill
- furring strip
- gutbucket
- Heath Robinson
- integrity
- iron
- jetty
- kind
- lockage
- macrostructure
- Meccano
- mechanical engineering
- mechanician
- navvy
- navy yard
- need
- number
- ought
- overwrought
- partitive
- post-and-beam
- reverse engineering
- rig
- road fund
- robotics
- sandhog
- self-assembly
- similar
- skid
- sort
