: a prefabricated structure
Examples of prefab in a Sentence
Noun
The company sells hundreds of prefabs every year.
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Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
The scheme is mature enough that there are now readily available prefab cryptocurrency investment platforms, templates, and scripts available for sale online to anyone who wants to get started.
—Lily Hay Newman Matt Burgess, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
The church property is a sloping, eighteen-acre plot of land that contains the main tent, a prefab where the church holds school, a small building for the Spanish-speaking contingent, and administrative offices.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Adjective
To momentarily curb his prefab MAGA scriptures and racist dog whistles, Trump needed to exit the realm of the overtly political—which, apparently, meant sitting with a giggly, goateed standup comedian.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
The scheme is mature enough that there are now readily available prefab cryptocurrency investment platforms, templates, and scripts available for sale online to anyone who wants to get started.
—Lily Hay Newman Matt Burgess, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
Normally, textures, sprites, models, shaders, prefabs, etc are all saved locally and loaded at the beginning of each level.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
The church property is a sloping, eighteen-acre plot of land that contains the main tent, a prefab where the church holds school, a small building for the Spanish-speaking contingent, and administrative offices.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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“Prefab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prefab. Accessed 21 Oct. 2024.
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