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prefab

[ adjective noun pree-fab; verb pree-fab ]

adjective



noun

  1. something that is prefabricated, as a building or fixture:

    You would never know that such an attractive house is a prefab.

verb (used with object)

, pre·fabbed, pre·fab·bing.
  1. to prefabricate.

prefab

/ ˈpriːˌfæb /

noun

    1. a building that is prefabricated, esp a small house
    2. ( as modifier )

      a prefab house



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Word History and Origins

Origin of prefab1

First recorded in 1935–40; by shortening

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Example Sentences

He turns a visit to a prefab home emporium into a meditation on wealth as a path to spiritual legitimacy.

At the prefab dorms on the American base in Kandahar, I ran into my neighbor from the bunk next door.

But when I was 13, I was one of those sign wavers on the corner for prefab homes.

The site is slick, and it disseminates prefab speeches of political Islam by clerics in Saudi Arabia.

The walls are prefab plastic sheet, the rest is standard fittings slung in and bolted down with the fastenings showing.

At once she went on a feminine exploring expedition of the prefab's interior, and its new, gleaming appointments.

Jack Holloway landed the manipulator in front of the cluster of prefab huts.

Mryna thought there might be one man living in a kind of prefab somehow suspended above the rain mist.

The first inarticulate roar was followed by a babel of voices, like a tropical cloudburst on a prefab hut.

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