construction

/kən'strʌkʃn/
Noun
  1. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
    • their main business is home construction
    • workers in the building trades
  2. an interpretation of a text or action
    • they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct
  3. drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
    • the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem
  4. a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
    • the structure consisted of a series of arches
    • she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons
  5. the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
  6. a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
    • I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner
  7. the act of constructing something
    • during the construction we had to take a detour
    • his hobby was the building of boats

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A construction worker in a yellow hard hat operates a large crane at a building site.