prefab

Etymology

Shortening.

adj

  1. prefabricated

noun

  1. A prefabricated building.
    Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel. March 23 2022, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41
  2. A prefabricated section of a building.
  3. (Britain) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
  4. (programming) A reusable object in a video game world.

verb

  1. To prefabricate.

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