prefabricate

[ pree-fab-ri-keyt ]

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verb (used with object),pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing.

to fabricate or construct beforehand.
to manufacture in standardized parts or sections ready for quick assembly and erection, as buildings.

Origin of prefabricate

First recorded in 1930–35; pre- + fabricate

Other words from prefabricate

pre·fab·ri·ca·tion, noun
pre·fab·ri·ca·tor, noun
un·pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, adjective

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How to use prefabricate in a sentence

Pragnell spent three months in Japan engineering prefabricated warehouses.
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Most have mature gardens and tall trees despite the fact they are nothing more than prefabricated structures.
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From the top of the Church steeple, the highest point in this prefabricated settlement, I could only gawk at the carnage below.
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The cargo includes cement, reinforcement bars, and prefabricated wooden houses.
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It was no great feat to divert the now aimless Colorado River aqueduct to the site nor to erect thousands of prefabricated houses.
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"The drilling machinery goes into one of those prefabricated sheds," Eldra considered.
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Ramshackle mine-buildings of prefabricated plastic straggled out from the shrouding blackness under a pinnacled ridge.
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The house, two stories of prefabricated metal, stood perched on one of the outer corners.
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Not one of those prefabricated ones, but a natural, real one.
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British Dictionary definitions for prefabricate

prefabricate

/ (priːˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt) /

verb

(tr) to manufacture sections of (a building), esp in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site

Derived forms of prefabricate

prefabricated, adjective
prefabrication, noun

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