: a prefabricated structure
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Noun
The company sells hundreds of prefabs every year.
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Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
His home was now a filthy prefab container — thick with the smell of cannabis smoke — shared with three men in their 30s and 40s from Africa and Afghanistan.
—Will Coldwell, The Dial, 3 Dec. 2024
New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
The church property is a sloping, eighteen-acre plot of land that contains the main tent, a prefab where the church holds school, a small building for the Spanish-speaking contingent, and administrative offices.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Adjective
Vanderbilt is a subsidiary of Clayton Homes, the country’s largest builder of manufactured homes, sometimes called mobile or prefab houses.
—Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
His home was now a filthy prefab container — thick with the smell of cannabis smoke — shared with three men in their 30s and 40s from Africa and Afghanistan.
—Will Coldwell, The Dial, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
Normally, textures, sprites, models, shaders, prefabs, etc are all saved locally and loaded at the beginning of each level.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
The church property is a sloping, eighteen-acre plot of land that contains the main tent, a prefab where the church holds school, a small building for the Spanish-speaking contingent, and administrative offices.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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“Prefab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prefab. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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