Construction

noun

kən'strəkʃən

Noun

the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
“their main business is home construction”
Similar:Building
Type of:Business
the act of constructing something
“during the construction we had to take a detour”
Similar:Building
an interpretation of a text or action
“they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct”
Similar:Twist
Type of:Interpretation
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
“I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner”
Similar:Expression
Type of:Constituent
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
“she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons”
Similar:Structure
Type of:ArtefactArtifact
drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
“the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem”
Type of:Operation
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
Type of:CerebrationThoughtThinking

Peak usage: 1950s

Source: Google Books Ngram Viewer (1800–2019)