prefab
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- noun
- /ˈpriːfæb/
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prefabricado
- A sprawl of prefabs rambling over a flattish area a few meters above the sea, with low heath-covered hills at its back.
- prefab housing
- prefab concrete
Examples
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"Led by Senator Homer Ferguson, a special commission appointed by President Truman ordered the War Assets Administration to evict the Tucker Corporation from the former aircraft factory and give it to the Lustron Corporation for the development of low-cost prefab housing."
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The department of water and power was located in a small brown prefab building adjoining Town Hall.
Fiction book (1991) -
I look down at the prefabs that house the workers and the office for the construction managers.
Blog text (15) -
Do you know that there are now prefab houses that you can erect that create more energy than they consume?
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There's a new world of residential living that includes high-quality prefab, container homes, or modern architecture.
Blog text (3) -
Before moving here to Pine Top Acres, the Chapmans had lived just down the way from Billy's family in a prefab.
Fiction book (1991) -
Budapest University students have created an innovative solar-powered prefab home for the 2012 European Solar Decathlon.
Blog text (34) -
Hungary's Odooproject prefab home produces twice the amount of energy it consumes.
Blog text (34) -
The media picked up a thread on this modular home thinking it was an IKEA prefab, but the reality is the home was built by Ideabox with a ton of IKEA products on the inside.
Blog text (3) -
The newly constructed community features several stylish prefab homes that can be quickly assembled on site.
How Prefabricated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word prefab is short for prefabricated, with pre- meaning 'before' and fabric meaning 'to make'. So a prefab building is made in parts before it reaches the site and is then assembled there.