PREFABRICATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("prefabrication" is a kind of...):

fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing (the act of making something (a product) from raw materials)

Derivation:

prefabricate (to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings)

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