jerrybuilding
jerrybuilding is the present participle and gerund of jerrybuild.
Meaning of jerrybuild
Verb
jerrybuild (third-person singular simple present jerrybuilds, present participle jerrybuilding, simple past and past participle jerrybuilt)
- To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials.
- It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 154–5
- To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
- To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.
Questions about jerrybuilding
- What is jerrybuilding the present participle and gerund of?
- Jerrybuilding is the present participle and gerund of jerrybuild.
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