abuilding

American  

[uh-bil-ding] / əˈbɪl dɪŋ /

adjective

1. in the process of building or being built.

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Etymology

Origin of abuilding

First recorded in 1525–35; a- ¹ + build + -ing ²

Example Sentences

There's a $310 million technical center abuilding in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crisis was long abuilding, and a surprise to no one when it came: the only question was which of France's innumerable Cabinet crises would produce the crise de regime.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the new U.S. embassy now abuilding in Warsaw, sharp-eyed security men found that Polish technicians had thoughtfully installed 18 bugs, connected them to a single underground conduit deep in the concrete foundations.

From Time Magazine Archive

If "the golf course" is a triumph of sweat and ingenuity, Cam Ranh Bay, abuilding 190 miles north of Saigon, is the manifesto of American engineering.

From Time Magazine Archive

It cost eight millions; it was twenty-four years abuilding, and the founder himself saw it furnished and enjoyed it twelve years after, and carried his bones himself thither to be buried.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean