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port-a-cabin

port-a-cabin is the alternative form of portacabin.

Meaning of portacabin

Noun

portacabin (plural portacabins)

  1. A prefabricated hut that is transportable, often used as an office or for storage.
    • It was a standard port-a-cabin, twenty by twelve feet, with two small beds at either end, two lockers, and a table and chair between them.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 55

Forms of port-a-cabin

pluralport-a-cabins

Questions about port-a-cabin

What is port-a-cabin the alternative form of?
Port-a-cabin is the alternative form of portacabin.

Words near port-a-cabin in the dictionary

  1. Port Weld
  2. Port Welshpool
  3. Port Williams
  4. port wine
  5. port wines
  6. port-a-cabin
  7. port-a-cabins
  8. Port-au-Prince
  9. port-crayon
  10. port-crayons
  11. Port-de-Piles

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