prefab

adjective

pre·fab | \ (ˌ)prē-ˈfab

, ˈprē-ˌfab\

Definition of prefab

(Entry 1 of 2)

: produced by prefabrication : prefabricated a prefab house

prefab

noun

Definition of prefab (Entry 2 of 2)

: a prefabricated structure

Examples of prefab in a Sentence

Noun

The company sells hundreds of prefabs every year.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective

According to Forbes, the father of four has been working with designers to come up with prefab structures with the same out-of-this-world aesthetic. — Selena Barrientos, House Beautiful, "Kanye West Is Building "Star Wars"-Inspired Homes for the Homeless," 10 July 2019 At the Élysée, I was surprised by Macron’s willingness to genuinely engage with my questions, rather than use them as prompts for prefab spiels. — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, "Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide?," 24 June 2019 Carved under the snow and ice, Camp Century had a main street and prefab housing for 250 soldiers and scientists—all powered by a pint-sized nuclear reactor. — Jon Gertner, WIRED, "The Top Secret Cold War Project That Pulled Climate Science From the Ice," 12 June 2019 Chen’s volunteers live on the property in prefab homes, a camper and stables on whose walls rusted riding gear still hangs. — Matthew Ormseth, latimes.com, "With Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man,’ Chinese sculptor will keep democracy’s flame alive in Mojave," 3 June 2019 The holy grail of prefab architecture is something that’s cost effective, efficient to build, and breathtakingly beautiful. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "Based on your zodiac sign, what should your Halloween costume be?," 10 Oct. 2018 Others see technology as a potential savior; numerous startups and new prefab companies have raised money to develop more efficient construction methods. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "Rising labor costs send the price of house construction skyward," 17 Dec. 2018 Here’s a closer look at the prefab projects that impressed us this year for those reasons and more. — Jenny Xie, Curbed, "The 7 most impressive prefab homes from 2018," 27 Dec. 2018 There are a lot of appealing benefits to purchasing a prefab home. — Maggie Burch, House Beautiful, "The Impressive Evolution Of Prefabricated Houses," 24 Dec. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Connor Mill-Built Homes constructs prefabs with historically accurate exteriors but all the necessities of modern living. — Dan Neil, WSJ, "The Fantasy Utility Vehicle: A $300,000 Nostalgia Trip," 27 June 2019 Marius Barstad, a Norwegian plastic surgeon, and his wife, Bente Eger, a sales agent for a fashion company, gave a humdrum 1970s prefab, perched on the edge of Oslo’s inner fjord, a radical makeover. — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, "Living Large in a Scandinavian Suburb," 3 Oct. 2018 Not without drawbacks Just like every building method, prefab has its hassles. — Michele Lerner, sacbee, "Prefabs’ appeal is going up quickly," 29 June 2018 High steel prices and a lack of practicality may have hindered them; the prefabs, like the McCormick House, would have had no attic or basement. — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, "A less-is-more restoration of a Mies house expands our view of a little-known episode in the famed architect's career," 8 June 2018 The Fox station in Madison opted not to run the prefab script. — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Be MKE: Big bonuses for Kohl's execs, influencer marketing and new eats," 4 Apr. 2018 Less than 3 percent of housing starts in the United States in 2016 were some sort of prefab. — Julie Lasky, New York Times, "Prefab Finds a Home in Fire-Ravaged Neighborhoods of California," 5 Mar. 2018 In the early days of prefab, the designs were limited. — Sandy Deneau Dunham, The Seattle Times, "A Q&A on prefabricated homes," 7 June 2017 The architects, builders and manufacturers working with prefab are also top-notch. — Sandy Deneau Dunham, The Seattle Times, "A Q&A on prefabricated homes," 7 June 2017

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