building site
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2.4
- noun
- /ˈbɪldɪŋ saɪt/
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obra
- The workers arrived early to start construction at the building site before the weather changed.
I, I was on a building site the other day and this guy came up to me.
- I, I was on a building site the other day and this guy came up to me.
- So I've ended up I've ended up going to get a job with mate on some building site making fence posts and all this stuff on his concrete yard.
- OK, there any waste building sites, house, garages, we do it all.
- So building sites, screwdriving, that's what I've done.
- All the security I would say for a can't hear prison was quite LAX especially with being a building site as well.
- I've got a bit of work on the building site, weekends with a door light everywhere like Civic Centre.
Examples
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I said, you know, I was working on the busiest building site in the UK.
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Ground Zero is still a building site after a decade.
Academic text (2011) -
I, I was on a building site the other day and this guy came up to me.
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So I was driving past the building site today.
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Then one day, I was walking past a building site.
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More than 1,000 customers have been served, many at multiple building sites.
Academic text (1996) -
I was on a building site, and a girder fell from a crane.
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Darling boy, what is this I hear about you looking into that tragic accident at the Tamron building site?
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Her real estate work has slowed; private businesses have fewer contracts, and franchisee clients are cutting back on building sites.
Academic text (2009) -
Quaid's taut muscles glisten with sweat as he and several workers excavate a rocky building site.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.2
A place where something is now located or will be built
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3.9
A piece of land with fixed boundaries for building
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3.3
A piece of land for building a house or with a house on it
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3.1
A place where building work happens
How Active
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area where construction work takes place' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'building' (construction) with 'site' (plot of ground). This noun+noun compound follows a regular compositional pattern that is common across languages and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Building site comes from the simple picture of a place where people are building, with machines, piles of bricks and workers on a piece of land called a site. So, building site means 'an area of land where building work is taking place or is planned'.