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noun

a building contractor.

a person skilled in the art of building; architect.

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Origin of master builder

First recorded in 1550–60

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And that gets to the heart of what makes the game so incredible: By staying silent, it turns the player into the game master.
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Dickens was a master of heart-wrenching pathos because he felt every pain as he wrote.
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Why was a master photographer recruited to work with one of the most successful liquor brands on the planet?
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So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City.
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Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.
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And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
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The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."
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Why should not Aristide, past master in drumming, find an honourable position in the orchestra of the Tournée Gulland?
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The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.
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British Dictionary definitions for master builder

master builder

noun

a person skilled in the design and construction of buildings, esp before the foundation of the profession of architecture

a self-employed builder who employs labour

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