Definition of prefab
: produced by prefabrication : prefabricated
- a prefab house
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Gone are the prefab offerings, replaced with items made in the kitchen.
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Big prefab manufacturers, such as Daiwa House, survive to this day, bringing out new models every year that, as with cars, people aspire to upgrade to.
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Through a gate is the dirt parking lot, and to the right a low-slung prefab structure, the nerve center here, the gun store with the machine shop out back.
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Berkeley Homes, another big firm, has bought a site in Kent to build 1,000 prefab homes a year.
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Of course, the frictions within prefab groups like the Spice Girls and One Direction probably didn’t include the mini-culture wars that threaten to tear F8 asunder.
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Is the leading man doing more new characters than prefab franchise work?
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Roughly half of the prefab homes that authorities promised to provide have been delivered, at most, though figures provided by the regional government and by Amatrice differ.
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The One soundtrack, Petty and the boys brought this deep cut off Mr. Hansen’s prefab classic Stereopathetic Soulmanure to the table.
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First Known Use of prefab
1937
Definition of prefab
: a prefabricated structure
Examples of prefab in a Sentence
The company sells hundreds of prefabs every year.
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Less than 3 percent of housing starts in the United States in 2016 were some sort of prefab.
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In the early days of prefab, the designs were limited.
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The architects, builders and manufacturers working with prefab are also top-notch.
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Pricing is of course another major benefit of modern prefab.
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First Known Use of prefab
1942
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Definition of prefab for English Language Learners
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: a prefabricated building (such as a house)
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