PREFABRICATE


Meaning of PREFABRICATE in English

(ˈ)prē+ transitive verb

Etymology: pre- + fabricate

1. : to fabricate all or most of the parts (as a house) at a factory so that construction consists mainly of assembling and uniting standardized parts

2. : to produce synthetically or artificially : develop in a superficially plausible or stereotyped manner

the novel's circumstances and characterizations have been tailor-made to fit a prefabricated scheme which is essentially false and gratuitous — Jerome Stone

• pre·fabrication (|)prē+ noun

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