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building site

building site noun: the site, the place where a building is located, is currently under construction, or shall be constructed (including structures other than buildings).

building site: the site, the place where a building is located, is currently under construction, or shall be...
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Noun

building site (plural building sites)

  1. The site, the place where a building is located, is currently under construction, or shall be constructed (including structures other than buildings).
    • Amid confusion over whether it was appropriate for any building sites to remain open, Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said some construction workers could continue to work but that they should "exercise some common sense" and continue to practise social distancing.2020 April 8, “Network News: Crossrail heads the construction projects placed on hold”, in RAIL, page 13
  2. The site of a former structure, indicated by an assemblage of features, artifacts or debris, remote-sensing data, or historic records (e.g., deed records).
  3. (figuratively) A messy, disorganized area.

building site meaning in Tamil and Kannada

building site in Tamil

கட்டட மனை

building site in Kannada

ಕಟ್ಟಡ ಸ್ಥಳ, ನಿವೇಶನ

Synonyms of building site

Forms of building site

pluralbuilding sites

Questions about building site

What does building site mean?
Building site means the site, the place where a building is located, is currently under construction, or shall be constructed (including structures other than buildings).
What is building site in Tamil?
Building site in Tamil is கட்டட மனை. See Building site meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is building site?
Building site is a noun.
What is the plural of building site?
The plural of building site is building sites.

Words near building site in the dictionary

  1. building on sand
  2. building out
  3. building paper
  4. building permit
  5. building permits
  6. building site
  7. building sites
  8. building societies
  9. building society
  10. building the plane while flying it
  11. building up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: building site (page history and authors); building site (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); building site (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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