BUILDING CODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does building code mean? 

• BUILDING CODE (noun)
  The noun BUILDING CODE has 1 sense:

1. set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings

  Familiarity information: BUILDING CODE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUILDING CODE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("building code" is a kind of...):

code; codification (a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)