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      "From Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin c\u014dnstructi\u014d, from c\u014dnstruere, present active infinitive of c\u014dnstru\u014d.\nMorphologically construct + -ion."
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            "mean": "The process of constructing.\nConstruction is underway on the new bridge."
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            "mean": "Anything that has been constructed.\nThe engineer marvelled at his construction."
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            "mean": "The trade of building structures.\nHe had worked in construction all his life."
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            "mean": "A building, model or some other structure.\nThe office was a construction of steel and glass."
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            "mean": "(art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.\n\"Construction in string and clockwork\" took first prize."
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            "mean": "The manner in which something is built.\nA thing of simple construction.\n1913,  Robert Barr,  chapter 4, in  Lord Stranleigh Abroad\u200e:Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water\u2019s edge."
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            "mean": "(grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase."
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            "mean": "The act or result of construing the meaning of something.\nAmerican conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution."
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            "mean": "The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.\n1992,  Hilary Mantel,  A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 95:He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it \u2013 might believe she had done something she shouldn't have."
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            "mean": "(geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass."
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            "mean": "\u201cconstruction\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201cconstruction\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC.\nconstruction at OneLook Dictionary Search"
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