Usually means: Building structures or infrastructure development process.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. construction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. construction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. construction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. construction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. construction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Construction, construction: Wordnik
  7. construction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. construction: Wiktionary
  9. construction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. construction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. construction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. construction: Dictionary.com
  13. construction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. construction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Construction (Cage), Construction (disambiguation), Construction (psychoanalysis), Construction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Construction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. construction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. construction: Rhymezone
  19. Construction, construction (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. construction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. construction: Free Dictionary
  22. construction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. construction: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. construction: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. construction: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. construction: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Construction (disambiguation), construction: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction (disambiguation), construction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. International Publications (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. construction: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. construction: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See constructional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process of constructing.
noun:  Anything that has been constructed.
noun:  The trade of building structures.
noun:  A building, model or some other structure.
noun:  (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
noun:  The manner in which something is built.
noun:  (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
noun:  The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
noun:  The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
noun:  (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

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