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

Fences that took less time to build because they were planned out ahead of time, or even bought as an E-Z prefab kit. — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, "How to Make a Great Garden Fence," 24 May 2017 In April 2013, the couple paid about $2.1 million for a drab-yellow 1970s prefab home, perched on the edge of the city’s inner fiord. — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, "Living Large in a Scandinavian Suburb," 3 Oct. 2018 Easton has now set his sights on building himself a prefab house in Quebec. — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, "David Easton on Evolving Taste," 1 June 2012 Design magazines and blogs regularly showcase prefab houses. — Michele Lerner, sacbee, "Prefabs’ appeal is going up quickly," 29 June 2018 Yet the prefab house is built for five and has many of the markings of a clever tiny home. — Liz Stinson, Curbed, "Prefab cabin comes with a deck almost as big as the house," 26 June 2018 Now, instead of single-family homes, companies doing prefab building are focusing on higher-density condominiums and apartments. — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, "Piece by Piece, a Factory-Made Answer for a Housing Squeeze," 7 June 2018 The 2,500-square-foot home, powered by solar panels, is built from a concrete skeleton and clad in prefab components made from local spruce. — Liz Stinson, Curbed, "Prefab modern lake house is powered by the sun," 5 July 2018 The famous developer William Levitt used some of the same prefab techniques in his Levittown houses. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "Why the U.S. government built three top-secret cities during WWII," 8 May 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

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 Pricing is of course another major benefit of modern prefab. — Elizabeth Stamp, CNN, "The 'prefab' housing resurgence rolls on," 1 June 2017

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