JERRY-BUILDING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("jerry-building" is a kind of...):

building; construction (the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb jerry-build

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