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purpose-built

adjective

  1. made to serve a specific purpose
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It continued in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, in a purpose-built, corporate building with all the mod cons.

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Depending on planning permission, a new purpose-built parish centre would then be constructed closer to the adjacent St John the Evangelist Church Ballymaghery.

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In October it said a plan to move to a new purpose-built site nearby had fallen through due to spiralling costs and a lack of time.

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Diving has been part of every Games since 1930 but has missed out in Glasgow, with a lack of an existing purpose-built venue being cited as the primary reason.

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Some documents linking Naumann to the killing, which had been shredded, were reconstituted using a purpose-built machine.

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