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as built

as built is the alternative form of as-built.

Meaning of as-built

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

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Forms of as built

pluralas builts

Questions about as built

What is as built the alternative form of?
As built is the alternative form of as-built.

Words near as built in the dictionary

  1. as be damned
  2. as best as one can
  3. as best one can
  4. as big as life
  5. as broad as long
  6. as built
  7. as builts
  8. as clever as a cartload of monkeys
  9. as demure as an old whore at a christening
  10. as easy as rolling off a log
  11. as ever

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Adapted from Wiktionary: as built (page history and authors); as-built (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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