Topic: CONSTRUCTION

construction
noun

con‧struc‧tion S3 W2 See pronunciation table in "How to use dictionary" pages

building something

[uncountable]TI the process of building things such as houses, bridges, roads etc

the construction of a new airport

under construction (=being built)

The hotel is currently under construction.

a road construction project

construction workers

[uncountable]TI the process of making something using many parts:

Work out the exact design before you start construction.

[uncountable] the materials used to build or make something, or its design and structure:

The houses were partly timber in construction.

External doors should be of robust construction.

[countable] formal something that has been built:

a modern construction

[countable]SLG the way in which words are put together in a sentence, phrase etc:

difficult grammatical constructions

[uncountable] the process of forming something from knowledge or ideas:

the construction of sociological theory

formal to think that a statement has a particular meaning or that something was done for a particular reason:

The judge put an entirely different construction on his remarks.

—constructional adjective