Construction | Mean of construction in English Dictionary

/kənˈstrʌkʃən/

• Noun
• the act or process of building something (such as a house or road)
1. Construction of the new bridge will begin in the spring.
2. Construction on the bridge will occur daily from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.
3. The new school is now under construction. [=is now being built]
4. construction costs/equipment/materials
5. They haven't chosen a construction site for the building yet. [=they haven't decided where the building will be built yet]
• the business of building things (such as houses or roads)
1. “What do you do for a living?” “I'm in construction.” [=I do work that involves building things]
2. the construction industry
• the way something is built or made
1. Note the similar construction of the buildings.
2. I like these binoculars because of their sturdy construction. [=because they are strongly built]

• the way words in a sentence or phrase are arranged
1. Some people think it is wrong to end a sentence with a preposition, but the construction is quite common in English.
2. That verb is commonly used in passive constructions.
3. This word is used in positive/negative constructions.
• the process of organizing ideas or thoughts into a new theory, statement, etc.
1. His ideas were pivotal in the construction of a new way to understand time and space.
• a way of understanding something
1. Don't put a negative construction on what I said: [=don't understand what I said in a negative way]
2. a broad/strict construction [=interpretation] of the Constitution