Construction in a sentence as a noun

I am certainly less snarky about kids going to do unskilled construction labor.

If I open a hardware store near a bunch of planned construction, should I pay those real estate developers?

Now he's a commercial construction inspector in Seattle.

He took them across state to a rural area and told them that a lot of construction was going to happen here and that he was going to setup shop here.

The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction.

The whole country is being sold to corporations by the government, for the construction of malls, luxury condominiums, freeways, dams and nuclear plants.

A new cryptosystem implemented in 2013 is, sorry to say, more likely to use ECB mode AES than it is to use an authenticated encryption construction.

Most areas of Silicon Valley are militantly opposed to anything that looks like high-density construction.

Whereas I had previously considered soda and individually wrapped danishes disgusting, I found I could hardly help myself in 7-11s on my way home from construction sites.

I may be naive here, but the pylons really do take away most of the objections from farmers and installing tubes over farmland has to be a lot cheaper than doing construction above a highway.

Every decent improvement is blocked by some greedy Boomer sonovabitch whose business or view would be mildly inconvenienced by the impact of construction.

It then used this report to send a demand letter to the midwest firm, claiming that their management of the construction project was inept and that it had to pay millions of dollars in damages on account of the delays in construction.

It is that program construction is \nnot always a simple progression in which each act of assembly represents a distinct forward step and that the \nfinal product can be described simply as the sum of many sub-assemblies.

I'm aware of multiple local carpenters and other people in construction businesses, including managing construction businesses, who have varying degrees of punctilious correctness in English writing, but all of them making their reputations and their livings by how they construct buildings, not by how they construct sentences.

After hiring a firm out of the midwest to manage the construction on a fixed-fee contract, it proceeded to make life miserable for that firm by making never-ending revisions to the project plans throughout the course of construction and this not only caused that firm to incur cost overruns but also had the effect of causing substantial delays in getting the work done.

Construction definitions

noun

the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"

See also: building

noun

a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"

See also: expression

noun

the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

noun

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

See also: structure

noun

drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"

noun

an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

See also: twist

noun

the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"

See also: building