constructor
Americannoun
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constructors
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a person or thing that builds.
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a person or company engaged in the construction business.
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a person who devises crossword puzzles.
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But feeding the Barbary macaques is "not a great idea, because you can hurt them, because you give them anything", added the constructor designer.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
"It will be incredibly naive to think that because we achieved the constructor championship, now we deserve it for the future," Stella told the podcast.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
The 50-year-old Horner has been Red Bull team principal since it entered F1 as a full constructor in 2005.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The Leclerc finish helped Ferrari cut its deficit to Mercedes to four points for second in the constructor championship heading into next week’s finale at Abu Dhabi.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
The sultan wishes to confer upon him the title of chief naval constructor, and to furnish him with a house and a caique with four oars.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
Not for constructors like India-born Mangesh Ghogre, who came to the U.S. on an H-1B visa to make puzzles and who cleverly works Indian themes into his grids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
For language constructors — conlangers, as they are known — such small touches enhance the verisimilitude of even gigantic edifices like the “Dune” series.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
Max Verstappen won the driver championship with six races remaining on the schedule, and Red Bull locked up the constructors title even earlier.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
In the 1960s, London County Council bought the remaining houses on the row but the owners of 41 Rotherhithe Street, barge constructors Braithwaite & Dean, refused to sell.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2023
The railway constructors must have rejoiced on finding so little labour required to perform their contract in this section.
From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
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