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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)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
  3. 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.

Words near jerrybuilding in the dictionary

  1. jerrybag
  2. jerrybags
  3. jerrybuild
  4. jerrybuilder
  5. jerrybuilders
  6. jerrybuilding
  7. jerrybuilds
  8. jerrybuilt
  9. jerrycan
  10. jerrycans
  11. jerrycummumble

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