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building sites

building sites is the plural of building site.

Meaning of building site

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.

Questions about building sites

What is building sites the plural of?
Building sites is the plural of building site.

Words near building sites in the dictionary

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

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