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no-build

no-build adjective: where new buildings are not allowed to be built.

Adjective

no-build (not comparable)

  1. Where new buildings are not allowed to be built.
    • a no-build area, a no-build zone
    • There are 80-year-old trees and 90-year-old buildings standing in what has suddenly been designated a no-build area.1979, Wyoming State Land Use Plan, page 106

Examples of no-build in a sentence

  • Jefferson County has adopted the mapped hazard area as part of its geologic-hazards overlay, and has considered it to be a “no-build” area.2002, D. M. Abbott Jr., D. C. Noe, “The consequences of living with geology: A model field trip for the general public”, in Science at the...
  • [...] from development (i.e., to say this area is a “no-build area”) a parcel of land already zoned developable.1998, Conservation Biology and Urban Sustainability, page 101:

Questions about no-build

What does no-build mean?
No-build means where new buildings are not allowed to be built.
How do you use no-build in a sentence?
Jefferson County has adopted the mapped hazard area as part of its geologic-hazards overlay, and has considered it to be a “no-build” area.
What part of speech is no-build?
No-build is an adjective.

Words near no-build in the dictionary

  1. no-brainer
  2. no-brainers
  3. no-break space
  4. no-break spaces
  5. no-brow
  6. no-build
  7. no-call-no-show
  8. no-call-no-shows
  9. no-CD
  10. no-CDs
  11. no-code

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