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homebuilding

homebuilding

2 3.4
The business of building houses and apartment buildings where people live
  • noun
  • /ˈhoʊmˌbɪldɪŋ/
translation icon : construcción de viviendas
  • "At the heart of the program is a different way to think about homebuilding," Sessions says.
  • homebuilding industry
  • homebuilding business
  • homebuilding company

Examples

  • Because of Bensonwood's legacy, the Unity Homes quality won't waver; because of our goals for this new brand, we'll constantly fight to make this standard of homebuilding more affordable and more accessible.

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  • The homebuilding industry is booming as demand for new houses increases.

  • I think we can see a 10% reduction in oil demand just from the freeze in homebuilding.

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  • I worked in the homebuilding industry, which was the first one to really collapse, and they certainly didn't see this coming at all.

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  • Miller is the founder of a homebuilding company and oversees the real estate industry as a member of the House Financial Services Committee.

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  • We have 18 million vacant homes, so homebuilding isn't coming back anytime soon.

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  • If the homebuilding industry did not see this coming, then they were negligently clueless.

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  • The homebuilding stocks have been a leader in 2012 on the prospect that housing troubles have bottomed.

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  • Unless you've been stuck in a cave for the last three months, you've heard the buzz about the improvements in the housing and homebuilding sectors.

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  • In his masterful telling of the story of one homebuilding project, the author shares insights that go far beyond the simple—but detailed—procedures that ultimately result in a finished home.

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Synonyms

building
vshomebuilding
941 1.0

Work of making or fixing houses and other structures for a living

is specific to creating residential properties not general repairs
construction
vshomebuilding
823 2.0

Work of building things like houses, roads or bridges

is limited to the residential building business rather than general making
construction industry
vshomebuilding
8 2.9

Part of the economy that builds houses or office buildings

focuses only on the residential building activity rather than broader sectors
housing industry
vshomebuilding
5 3.3

A group of businesses that build and sell homes

is the activity of constructing residences without focusing on sales
housebuilding
vshomebuilding
  • UK
2.3

Building houses for people to live in

has identical meaning but uses a different word form

Surface Forms

homebuilding singular
homebuildings plural

Morphology

homebuilding = home + building (transparent) = home + building

The meaning is directly the activity or business of building homes; components 'home' + 'building' combine in an obvious way.

Etymology

Homebuilding is made of home ('a house or the place where you live') and building (from build, 'to make'). So it simply means making houses or the business of constructing homes.