JERRY-BUILDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jerry-builder mean? 

• JERRY-BUILDER (noun)
  The noun JERRY-BUILDER has 1 sense:

1. someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit

  Familiarity information: JERRY-BUILDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JERRY-BUILDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("jerry-builder" is a kind of...):

builder; constructor (someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building))