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as-built

as-built adjective: relating to the form in which something was originally built.

Adjective

as-built (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the form in which something was originally built.
    • It was restored to near as-built condition by EWS ahead of the RAIL/EWS Toton Open Day in August 1998, and was withdrawn from traffic in December 1999, passing to the National Collection.2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Anniversary run for pioneer '37' thwarted by pandemic”, in Rail, page 31

Noun

as-built (plural as-builts)

  1. A drawing showing how a project was actually built as opposed to how it was intended to be built.
    • Maintaining as-builts on the Big Dig was a major undertaking, as it required keeping thousands of utility drawings up to date with the latest changes.2013, Virginia A. Greiman, Megaproject Management, →ISBN

Forms of as-built

pluralas-builts
alternative formas built

Questions about as-built

What does as-built mean?
As-built means relating to the form in which something was originally built.
What part of speech is as-built?
As-built can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near as-built in the dictionary

  1. as you sow, so shall you reap
  2. as you were
  3. as you wish
  4. as't
  5. as-
  6. as-built
  7. as-builts
  8. as-if rule
  9. as-is
  10. AS-level
  11. AS-levels

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