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- adjective
manufactured inadvance , usually to astandard format , and thenassembled onsite - adjective
invented in advance - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prefabricate .
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Examples
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We were in prefabricated wooden barracks, and the rooms were bolted together.
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Rather than comment on LEED’s impact on design, I am more concerned with the question of contextual relationships in prefabricated housing (especially with such radical forms).
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It's basically at the beginning of what we could call prefabricated lighthouses.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed OLIVER MOORE 2010
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It's basically at the beginning of what we could call prefabricated lighthouses.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed OLIVER MOORE 2010
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At this point, Cage's resume is so full of this kind of prefabricated Bruckheimer bushwah that it's hard to take him seriously as an actor, particularly when he's wearing a wig that would make a WWE wrestler blush.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010
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At this point, Cage's resume is so full of this kind of prefabricated Bruckheimer bushwah that it's hard to take him seriously as an actor, particularly when he's wearing a wig that would make a WWE wrestler blush.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010
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Much of the modules 'structure will be prefabricated, meaning the modules will be quick and easy to assemble in the harsh Antarctic conditions.
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When you say 'prefabricated' you are thinking of a house that is pre-cut and sort of stuck together.
Ring Around the Sun Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988 1952
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Washington housing planners are minimizing the word "prefabricated" in talking about the
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The project combines the traditional features of residential colleges-each has a dedicated dining commons, a master's residence, and civic and green space-with new technologies such as prefabricated bathroom pods.
Wired Campus 2010
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