Translate construction | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of construction
noun
[mass noun] 1the action of building something, typically a large structure:there was a skyscraper under construction the industry of constructing buildings, roads, etc.: 50,000 more jobs will go from construction the style or method used in the building of something:the mill is of brick construction [count noun] a building or other structure: the central waterway was a spectacular construction
2the creation of an abstract entity:language plays a large part in our construction of reality [count noun] an interpretation or explanation:you could put an honest construction upon their conduct Grammar the arrangement of words according to syntactical rules:sentence construction
