buildableadj.
/ˈbɪldəbl/, U.S. /ˈbɪldəb(ə)l/ 1. Of a building, structure, or its design: that can be constructed.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > built > that may be built or constructed
constructible1856
buildable1927
1612 in T. Baker Hist. College St. John, Cambr. (1869) I. 471 You have proiected a Country Schoole buildable with the Charge of £120 and desyred our assents to take forth so much mony to that vse.
1871 Observer 24 Dec. 5/5 The farm yard, with its animals and its little buildable pens for the sheep.
1927 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 Nov. 527/3 [A design] compact, orderly and simple—and eminently buildable.
2016 J. R. Bednarek Airports, Cities & Jet Age 137 Given three weeks to develop a cost-efficient and buildable design, the firm proposed the tent-like, Teflon-coated fabric roof.
2. Of land, a piece of property, etc.: suitable for construction of a building or other structure.
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1841 A. M. Storey Let. 16 Jan. in Corr. Eccl. Commissioners & Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol 83 in Parl. Papers (1852) (H.C. 397) XXXVIII. 121 Horfield can only be valued as a farm; it has no buildable land on it.
1963 W. Holford in Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 23 May 1257/2 By adding a little more than a quarter of Merton Field..an extremely buildable site could be obtained.
2022 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 9 Mar. Only about 17 acres of the 48-acre College Boulevard site are buildable because of steep slopes, wildlife habitat areas and other issues.
3. Designating concealer, foundation, or other types of make-up that can be applied in successive layers to form an increasingly opaque surface; (also) designating the result of such application.
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1991 Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 18 June 5 a (advt.) The Mascara is a buildable coverage mascara.
2015 Teen Vogue Oct. 74/2 A light mist emits a buildable veil of spray-and-go coverage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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