Construction Kənˈstrʌkʃn Road Extra Examples Brick Noun Began

• construction began this year and will take approximately 18 months.
• the costs of road construction and maintenance
• work has begun on the construction of the new airport.
• the construction of a new database

construction

1. the process or method of building or making something, especially roads, buildings, bridges, etc.
• Construction began this year and will take approximately 18 months.
• the costs of road construction and maintenance
• Work has begun on the construction of the new airport.
• the construction of a new database
• Our new offices are still under construction (= being built).
• Ethernet cabling was installed during construction.
• the construction industry
• construction work/workers
• a construction company/firm
• construction projects/costs/materials

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• Construction of the new road has now been completed.
• Major engineering challenges will be faced during construction.
• The drainage system needs careful construction.
• the heavy construction industry
2. the people and activities involved in making buildings
• 50 000 more jobs will go from construction in the next five years.
3. the way that something has been built or made
• The bridges are similar in construction.
• ships of steel construction
• It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof.

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• The earliest Greek temples were small buildings, simple in construction.
• walls of solid construction
• a schoolhouse of brick construction
4. a thing that has been built or made
• The summer house was a simple wooden construction.

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• a massive steel construction
• a two-storey brick construction
• massive constructions of bamboo and paper
5. the way in which words are used together and arranged to form a sentence, phrase, etc.
• grammatical constructions
6. the creating of something from ideas, opinions and knowledge
• the construction of a new theory
• changes in the social construction of marriage
7. the way in which words, actions, statements, etc. are understood by somebody
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• What construction do you put on this letter (= what do you think it means)?
• ruling on the proper construction to be given to section 78 of the Act
• a strict construction of the clause

Word Origin

• late Middle English: via Old French from Latin constructio(n-), from construere ‘heap together’, from con- ‘together’ + struere ‘pile, build’.