adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a built-in/fitted cupboard British English (= ones that are there permanently and cannot be moved )
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The kitchen has built-in cupboards.
fitted/built-in wardrobes (= wardrobes built against a wall or fitted between two walls )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cupboard
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There are built-in cupboards and shelves; larders and bright and fairly spacious sculleries.
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By the shelf was a built-in cupboard but everything else she saw was familiar.
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Happiness was an inside lavatory and built-in cupboards .
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His Dad was opening the door of a built-in cupboard .
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The bath panel and built-in cupboards are also panelled to match the wardrobes of Lisa and Andrew's bedroom.
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One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books, photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed.
obsolescence
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So they followed their cousins in the car industry and made their buildings with built-in obsolescence .
wardrobe
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There was the bed, of course, he could be cowering under it, or maybe in the spacious built-in wardrobe .
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They had built-in wardrobes in all bedrooms and a whole-house mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
planned/built-in obsolescence
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So they followed their cousins in the car industry and made their buildings with built-in obsolescence .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The camera has a built-in flash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anti-corrosion should be built-in from the start.
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Armoires had built-in tie racks; desk chairs folded down to fit in a home-office unit.
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Controlled by a hand-held remote with a small built-in keyboard, it would be used to browse the World Wide Web.
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Fortunately, being a nurse, she had the built-in weakness for the sick that belongs to all nurses.
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Her answers range from laminated boxes and wall-mounted baskets to built-in cabinets and architectural alterations.
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Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens, television and sleeping accommodation.
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Their measurements are less than those of standard ovens, although built-in models are the same width as built-in conventional ovens.