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JERRY-BUILDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jerry-building mean?
• JERRY-BUILDING (noun)
The noun JERRY-BUILDING has 1 sense:
1. construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit
Familiarity information: JERRY-BUILDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("jerry-building" is a kind of...):
building; construction (the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones)
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