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cobuild

cobuild verb: to build with another person or people.

Verb

cobuild (third-person singular simple present cobuilds, present participle cobuilding, simple past and past participle cobuilt)

  1. To build with another person or people.
    • Developers can invite others into their workspace to coedit, cobuild, or codebug and can communicate with one another in the workspace itself.2014, K. Chandrasekaran, Essentials of Cloud Computing, page 152

Proper noun capitalized: COBUILD

COBUILD

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Collins Birmingham University International Language Database.

Forms of cobuild

third-person singular presentcobuilds
present participlecobuilding
past participlecobuilt
pastcobuilt

Origin of cobuild

From co- + build.

Acronym chosen to spell out cobuild.

Words formed from cobuild

Questions about cobuild

What does cobuild mean?
Cobuild means to build with another person or people.
What part of speech is cobuild?
Cobuild can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of cobuild?
The past tense of cobuild is cobuilt.

Words near cobuild in the dictionary

  1. cobs
  2. cobstone
  3. cobstones
  4. cobswan
  5. cobswans
  6. cobuild
  7. cobuilder
  8. cobuilders
  9. cobuilding
  10. cobuilds
  11. cobuilt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cobuild (page history and authors); COBUILD (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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