Topic: INDUSTRY
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con‧struc‧tion S3 W2
1 the process of building things such as houses, bridges, roads etc a road construction project construction workers
building something
[uncountable]TIa road construction projectconstruction workers2 the process of making something using many parts : Work out the exact design before you start construction.
making something from many parts
[uncountable]TIWork out the exact design before you start construction.3 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.
way something is made
[uncountable]The houses were partly timber in construction.External doors should be of robust construction.4 something that has been built : a modern construction
a building/structure
[countable] formala modern construction5 the way in which words are put together in a sentence, phrase etc : difficult grammatical constructions
grammar
[countable]SLGdifficult grammatical constructions6 the process of forming something from knowledge or ideas : the construction of sociological theory
ideas/knowledge
[uncountable]the construction of sociological theory7 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.
put a construction on something
formalThe judge put an entirely different construction on his remarks. —constructional adjective
