construction

construction
noun
1 BUILDINGS/ROADS ETC (U) the process or method of building large buildings, bridges, roads etc: Local labor is used in the construction of the dam. | the construction industry | construction site (=the place where something is being constructed) | under construction (=being built): When we got to the hotel, it was still under construction.
2 MAKING STH USING MANY PARTS (U) the process or method of building or making something using many parts: Titanium is used in the construction of aircraft fuselages.
3 PHRASE (C) the order in which certain words are put together in a sentence, phrase etc: difficult grammatical constructions
4 STH BUILT (C) formal something that has been built: a strange construction made of wood and glass
5 IDEAS/KNOWLEDGE (U) the method or process of forming something from knowledge or ideas: the construction of sociological theory
6 of simple/strong etc construction formal built in a simple way, built to be strong etc: Your home is not secure if the doors are not of strong construction.
7 put a construction on formal to think that a statement has a particular meaning or that something was done for a particular reason: The judge put an entirely different construction on his remarks.
- constructional adjective

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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