ERECT


Meaning of ERECT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪrekt ]

( erects, erecting, erected)

1.

If people erect something such as a building, bridge, or barrier, they build it or create it. ( FORMAL )

Opposition demonstrators have erected barricades in roads leading to the parliament building...

The building was erected in 1900-1901...

We all unconsciously erect barriers against intimacy.

= construct

VERB : V n , V n , V n

2.

If you erect a system, a theory, or an institution, you create it.

Japanese proprietors are erecting a complex infrastructure of political influence throughout America...

He erected a new doctrine of precedent.

VERB : V n , V n

3.

People or things that are erect are straight and upright.

Stand reasonably erect, your arms hanging naturally...

ADJ

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