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Definitions of construction:

noun: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
Example: "The assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"
noun: the act of constructing or building something
Example: "During the construction we had to take a detour"
noun: the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings
Example: "Their main business is home construction"
noun: the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
noun: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
Example: "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
noun: an interpretation of a text or action
Example: "They put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
noun: a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity
Example: "She wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to construction: (269 results)
Synonyms:
building, expression, mental synthesis, structure, twist

Contains:
base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, house painting, masonry, painting, plate, plumbery, plumbing, roofing, sheet-metal work, structural member, substructure, understructure

More general:
artefact, artifact, business, business enterprise, cerebration, commercial enterprise, constituent, creating from raw materials, grammatical constituent, intellection, interpretation, mathematical operation, mathematical process, mentation, operation, thinking, thought

More specific:
altar, arcade, arch, area, arena, arrangement, assembly, balance, balcony, bascule, boarding, body, bowl, bridge, building complex, cardcastle, cardhouse, catchment, clause, coil, colonnade, column, complement, complex, corner, counterbalance, cross, deathtrap, defence, defense, defensive structure, divider, dry walling, edifice, entablature, equilibrium, equipoise, erecting, erection, establishment, fabrication, floor, fountain, grading, helix, hill, house of cards, house-raising, housing, hull, impedimenta, impediment, infrastructure, jerry-building, landing, landing place, level, leveling, lodging, lookout, lookout station, memorial, misconstruction, monument, mound, observation tower, observatory, offset, partition, phrase, pillar, platform, porch, post and lintel, predicator, prefab, projection, protuberance, public works, quadrature, quoin, road construction, set back, setoff, shelter, shipbuilding, shipway, shoebox, signboard, sign, slipway, span, spiral, stadium, storey, story, superstructure, supporting structure, tower, transept, trestlework, vaulting, volute, ways, weapons platform, wellhead, whorl, wind tunnel

Often used in the same context:
contractor, highway

Appears in the definition of:
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