n.
building
home
1) to build, put up a ~
2) to redecorate, refurbish, remodel, renovate a ~
3) to demolish, raze, tear down a ~
4) to rent a ~ from smb.
5) to let ( BE ), rent out ( AE ) a ~ to smb.
6) a dilapidated, ramshackle ~
7) an apartment ( AE ); brick; clapboard; country; detached; frame; manor ( esp. BE ); one-family, single; prefabricated; ranch ( AE ); rooming; row ( AE ), terraced ( BE ); semidetached; summer; town ~
8) a haunted ~
9) ( AE ) a fraternity; sorority ~
~keeping
10) to keep ~ for smb.
theater
11) to bring the ~ down ('to win thunderous approval')
12) an empty; full, packed ~ (to play to a packed ~)
13) an opera ~
chamber of a parliament
14) a lower; upper ~
firm
15) a banking; discount; gambling; mail-order; pharmaceutical; publishing ~; slaughter~
place providing a public service
16) a boarding; halfway; safe; settlement ~
bar
( BE )
17) a free; public; tied ~
shelter
18) a reptile ~ (at a zoo)
misc.
19) a ~ of correction/detention ('a prison'); a disorderly ~ ('a brothel'); ( AE ) a station ~ ('a police station'); drinks are on the ~ ('drinks are served free'); an open ~ ('informal hospitality'); ('a residence being sold or rented out that is open for inspection')