📒 the process or method of building or making something, especially roads, buildings, bridges, etc.
- Construction began this year and will take approximately 18 months.
- the costs of road construction and maintenance
- Work has begun on the construction of the new airport.
📒 the people and activities involved in making buildings
- 50 000 more jobs will go from construction in the next five years.
📒 the way that something has been built or made
- The bridges are similar in construction.
- ships of steel construction
- It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof.
📒 a thing that has been built or made
- The summer house was a simple wooden construction.
- a massive steel construction
- a two-storey brick construction
📒 the way in which words are used together and arranged to form a sentence, phrase, etc.
- grammatical constructions
📒 the creating of something from ideas, opinions and knowledge
- the construction of a new theory
- changes in the social construction of marriage
📒 the way in which words, actions, statements, etc. are understood by somebody
- What construction do you put on this letter (= what do you think it means)?
- ruling on the proper construction to be given to section 78 of the Act
- a strict construction of the clause