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  • adjective Composed of four parts; fourfold; quadruple.
  • adjective Having four apartments, divisions, or floors.

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  • noun quadplex

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Examples

  • On Sunday, September 21st, a gas explosion demolished a vacant fourplex in north Minneapolis.

    Natural Gas | Reuben's Home Inspection Blog 2009

  • He found his current fourplex and decided to purchase the property with a few friends, who would each keep one of the units.

    A New York-Style Apartment In Hancock Park 2011

  • He found his current fourplex and decided to purchase the property with a few friends, who would each keep one of the units.

    A New York-Style Apartment In Hancock Park 2011

  • Perhaps most disturbing was hearing about a troubled residential fourplex project that was built to state-of-the-art green standards.

    Jennifer Schwab: This Park Is Not So Green 2009

  • She grew Okinawan winter melons called goya, zucchini-shaped vegetables with a bumpy exterior, outside her fourplex in the middle of urban Los Angeles and distributed the exotic vegetables to all her Latino neighbors.

    October 2006 2006

  • It just might become a brand-new fourplex giving you eight more cars parked on your street.

    Sound Politics: Nickels' Push For White Center Annexation = Power Politics 2006

  • She grew Okinawan winter melons called goya, zucchini-shaped vegetables with a bumpy exterior, outside her fourplex in the middle of urban Los Angeles and distributed the exotic vegetables to all her Latino neighbors.

    A Tale of Two Grandmothers 2006

  • I had to hit the bushes and be very still as the cops strafed the area with their searchlights, but I made it, scurrying up the back steps to my apartment in a fourplex on Garfield Avenue.

    'The Night of the Gun' 2008

  • When the family was cleaning out her unit in their fourplex, I spied a dusty, battered sanshin on a chair.

    A Tale of Two Grandmothers 2006

  • When the family was cleaning out her unit in their fourplex, I spied a dusty, battered sanshin on a chair.

    October 2006 2006

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  • adj. Composed of four parts; fourfold; quadruple.

    adj. Having four apartments, divisions, or floors: a fourplex apartment building.

    "Mom and I are moving into the upstairs unit of this fourplex and two of the neighbors have litte kids and babies."

    June 20, 2015