structure(BUILDING)
Falling house prices are illustrative of the crisis facing the construction industry.房价的下跌足以说明建筑业所面临的危机。
The starting date for the construction work is June 23.
The construction of the tunnel is a large and complex undertaking.该隧道的修建是项复杂的大工程。
He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
How are we going to pay for the construction work?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Building: construction work & workers
banksman
blaster
break groundidiom
brick
brick something up
drainer
electrician
erection
erector
flip
rebuild
reconstruction
reface
refurb
refurbish
stonemason
tanking
thatcher
tiler
well built

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Frames & structures
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constructionnoun (LANGUAGE)

B2[ C ] language specialized
the way in which the words in a sentence or phrase are arranged: （句子或词组的）结构，构造
The writer has used several complex grammatical constructions.作者使用了几个复杂的句法结构。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistic terms & linguistic style
accentual
affricate
allophone
allophony
anaphor
contextualize
easy read
emphatic
entailment
etymological
etymologically
inflected language
parataxis
pathetic fallacy
philological
philologically
polysemy
portmanteau word
stylistics
tautology
 put a construction on somethingformal
to understand something in a particular way: （以特定方式）理解
How can they put such a damning construction on a perfectly innocent phrase?他们怎么能把一个毫无恶意的词语理解为谴责呢？
to understand something as having a particular meaning, especially other people's actions and statements: 把…解释为
I don't want them to put the wrong construction on my actions.我不想让他们误解我的举动。

construction | American Dictionary

construction
noun
us/kənˈstrʌk·ʃən/
[ U ]
the act or result of putting different things together:
A new hotel is now under construction (= being built).
[ C ]fml
your understanding of the meaning of something in a particular way:
The construction you are putting on my client’s statement is unfair.

construction | Business English

construction
noun
uk /kənˈstrʌkʃən/us
[ U ]
the process or business of building large objects such as buildings, roads, bridges, etc.:
Employment in construction increased by 12,000.
a construction site/project/worker29-year-old Jose has a well-paid job at a downtown construction site.
under constructionIn February, there were 15% fewer homes under construction than in the corresponding month of last year.
a construction company/firm/group
the construction industry/sector
[ U ] PRODUCTION
the activity of putting the different parts of something together in order to make it:
The chemical is found in materials used in the construction of travel trailers.
under constructionThey now have four satellites under construction.
the construction of an investment portfolio
[ U ]
the particular type of structure, materials, etc. that something has:
The bridge is of lightweight construction.
[ C ]
a building or other object that has been built:
The new office building was a glass and steel construction.

Examples of construction

construction
Each run can be taken as a record of an agent's memory constructions history.
The second par t takes up linguistic practices in relation to the social practices and gender constructions that the first par t has established.
In addition, individual lexical items are eventually related into more general constructions, as we will see later.
In other words, these personal nullsubject constructions lie at the extreme end of specificity of reference.
If we make the very conservative assumption that these three constructions are independent, we find an average category validity of 0.33 for constructions.
To examine children's use of syntactic information, two constructions in which there is a conflict between the referential and syntactic information were included.
According to the form-based criteria of a traditional account, these constructions are not passives.
All three constructions are treated as long distance dependencies triggered by a gap or a clitic (section 6n1).
The filler sentences made use of different kinds of syntactic constructions.
Constructions also specify linking relations for combination with other constructions in their semantic structures.
One only has to think of the well-known unnaturalness of logical ' or ' and ' if - then ' constructions.
On the other hand, the nouns in such constructions have many of them.
Minor register variation patterns are introduced by variation in equational and copula verb constructions, and by avoidance of some of the case variables.
Progress in this direction will be made once the semantics of given constructions are more carefully studied.
Section 3 discusses how the present approach divides up the class of ing constructions.
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Collocations withconstruction

construction

These are words often used in combination with construction.

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actual construction
Coding is often used in logic to hide the actualconstruction behind the neutrality of numbers.
canon of construction
Children who attend nursery schools are people and the greater, as a matter of the prime canonofconstruction, includes the lesser.
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