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half-built

half-built adjective: only partially built; not finished or completed.

Adjective

half-built (not comparable)

  1. Only partially built; not finished or completed.
    • In 1901 the Great Northern cancelled its agreement with the backers of the Big Tube, by which time the latter was half-built, and its big tunnels looked like a grandiose folly, since it would now not be allowed running rights into Finsbury Park main-line station.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 122
    • North End station under Hampstead Heath was a half-built station that later became a Cold War bunker.2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49

Origin of half-built

From half- + built.

Questions about half-built

What does half-built mean?
Half-built means only partially built; not finished or completed.
What part of speech is half-built?
Half-built is an adjective.

Words near half-built in the dictionary

  1. half-breeds
  2. half-brethren
  3. half-broken
  4. half-brother
  5. half-brothers
  6. half-built
  7. half-caf
  8. half-cafs
  9. half-caste
  10. half-castes
  11. half-cell

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