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[ adjective, noun pree-fab; verb pree-fab ] / adjective, noun ˈpriˌfæb; verb priˈfæb / SEE SYNONYMS FOR prefab ON THESAURUS.COM
nounsomething 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.Origin of prefabFirst recorded in 1935–40; by shortening Words nearby prefabpreexilian, preexist, pre-existing, preexposure, pref., prefab, prefabricate, preface, prefatory, prefect, prefect apostolic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for prefabHe turns a visit to a prefab home emporium into a meditation on wealth as a path to spiritual legitimacy. Charles D’Ambrosio’s X-Ray Vision Is On Full Display In His New Essay Collection.|Steve Almond|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST At the prefab dorms on the American base in Kandahar, I ran into my neighbor from the bunk next door. When I Met Robin Williams in Afghanistan|Matthew Kaminski|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST But when I was 13, I was one of those sign wavers on the corner for prefab homes. Hollywood’s Favorite Ex–Porn Star: A Chat With Sasha Grey|Marlow Stern|February 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST Jack Holloway landed the manipulator in front of the cluster of prefab huts. Little Fuzzy|Henry Beam Piper
The walls are prefab plastic sheet, the rest is standard fittings slung in and bolted down with the fastenings showing. The Lost Kafoozalum|Pauline Ashwell The first inarticulate roar was followed by a babel of voices, like a tropical cloudburst on a prefab hut. A Slave is a Slave|Henry Beam Piper Mryna thought there might be one man living in a kind of prefab somehow suspended above the rain mist. At once she went on a feminine exploring expedition of the prefab's interior, and its new, gleaming appointments. The Planet Strappers|Raymond Zinke Gallun
British Dictionary definitions for prefab
noun- a building that is prefabricated, esp a small house
- (as modifier)a prefab house
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to prefabdevelopment, manufacture, system, planning, plan, structure, complete, fabricate, create, construct, synthesize, assemble, mass-produce, dream up, envision, contrive, discover, invent, devise, hatch |