Definition of build-out
plural build-outs
also buildouts
1 a
:work done to make a structure or system ready for use or to bring a construction or development project to a completed state
- When the build-out of the campus is complete, as many as 7,500 students will attend class there.
- —Janis L. Magin
b
:work done to expand a system (such as a telecommunications system)
- The buildout of new infrastructure for digital cellular telephony is at such an early stage that it's impossible to predict what the performance of some of the systems will be.
- —Brian C. Fenton
c
:a project or process involving such work
- Of course, the Chinese are traveling and spending more in their own country too, in part because of a gigantic infrastructure build-out; China will have constructed more high-speed-rail capacity by the end of the decade than is currently operating in the rest of the world, some 10,000 miles' (16,000 km) worth.
- —Bill Saporito
2
:a state in which an area has been fully developed
- At build-out, the community is planned to include retail, restaurant and office space, a hotel, urban-style and loft apartments, townhomes, and condominiums.
- —The Flower Mound (Texas) Leader
