housing start

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noun

an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.

housing starts, the nationwide number of such instances per period used especially in the U.S. as an indication of economic growth or decline: Housing starts were up 600,000 in April.

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How to use housing start in a sentence

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
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Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
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Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
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But maybe you have to start somewhere else — with Lamont Waltman Marvin, Monty, his father, the Chief, the old man.
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So Marvin had the old showbiz glamour in his life from the start.
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Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
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The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.
Children's Ways|James Sully
But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.
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He said that you were going along, and so I thought I'd hunt you up and tell you that we'll start about seven in the morning.
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