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homebuilding

American  
[hohm-bil-ding] / ˈhoʊmˌbɪl dɪŋ /

noun

  1. the designing or constructing of houses.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or associated with homebuilding.

    the homebuilding industry.

Etymology

Origin of homebuilding

First recorded in 1815–25; home + building


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The homebuilding company said it expects full-year home deliveries of between 80,000 and 81,000 homes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

More than 1,000 miles away in Columbus, Ohio, Saeed Nassef runs a local homebuilding business.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026

Localities would have new incentives to spearhead more homebuilding themselves.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

Newsom’s father’s family was full of more traditional Democrats and Irish Catholic storytellers who worked in banking, homebuilding, law enforcement and law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

They were years of peace and growth, of marriages and homebuilding, of many births and a few deaths, of winter rest and summer labor, and of quiet domestic happiness.

From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert

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