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pro-build

pro-build verb: to build prior to necessity.

Verb

pro-build (third-person singular simple present builds, present participle building, simple past and past participle built)

  1. To build prior to necessity.
    • "We can't just rebuild after every disaster," Jacob continued. "We need to pro-build, with a future of climate change in mind.2013, The New Yorker

Forms of pro-build

third-person singular presentbuilds
present participlebuilding
past participlebuilt
pastbuilt

Questions about pro-build

What does pro-build mean?
Pro-build means to build prior to necessity.
What part of speech is pro-build?
Pro-build is a verb.
What is the past tense of pro-build?
The past tense of pro-build is built.

Words near pro-build in the dictionary

  1. pro-attitude
  2. Pro-Aves
  3. Pro-Avis
  4. pro-birth
  5. pro-black
  6. pro-build
  7. pro-bureaucratic
  8. pro-business
  9. pro-cathedral
  10. pro-cathedrals
  11. pro-celeb

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