Usually means: Manufacture sections before final assembly.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word prefabricate:

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  1. prefabricate: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefabricate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prefabricate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prefabricate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prefabricate: Vocabulary.com
  6. prefabricate: Wiktionary
  7. prefabricate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. prefabricate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. prefabricate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. prefabricate: Dictionary.com
  11. prefabricate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Prefabricate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. prefabricate: Rhymezone
  14. prefabricate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. prefabricate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. prefabricate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefabricate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefabricate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prefabricate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To manufacture (a building, etc.) in standard components that can be fitted together on site.

Similar:
preassemble, frame, fabricate, stuff, fashion, erect, frame up, construct, build, put together, more...

Opposite:
construct, build, assemble, create, fabricate

Types:
panel, module, unit, system, component, more...
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Similar:
preassemble, frame, fabricate, stuff, fashion, erect, frame up, construct, build, put together, more...

Opposite:
construct, build, assemble, create, fabricate

Types:
panel, module, unit, system, component, more...



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