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oversite

oversite adjective: laid over the ground, or built above an existing site.

Adjective

oversite (not comparable)

  1. Laid over the ground, or built above an existing site.
    • The new station entrance on Cannon Street shortly after completion of the roof on September 12, and how it will look once opened and with oversite development in 2022.2019 October 23, RAIL, page 70, image caption

Noun

oversite (plural oversites)

  1. A layer of concrete underneath the ground floor of a building, as a seal
  2. An oversite slab, a slab on grade, a flat, solid layer of concrete laid over prepared ground, usually serving as a base for flooring or for pouring the reinforced concrete floor slab (base plate).

Forms of oversite

pluraloversites

Origin of oversite

From over- + site.

Questions about oversite

What does oversite mean?
Oversite means laid over the ground, or built above an existing site.
What part of speech is oversite?
Oversite can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near oversite in the dictionary

  1. oversincerity
  2. oversing
  3. oversinging
  4. oversings
  5. oversit
  6. oversite
  7. oversites
  8. oversits
  9. oversitting
  10. oversize
  11. oversized

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