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Definition of Construction
Construction

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.

The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.

The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.

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Construction Quotations

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.
Alan Shepard

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

Construction Translations

construction in French is terrier
construction in German is Anlage {f}, Bauweise, Errichtung {f}
construction in Italian is edificazkone
construction in Swedish is konstruktion


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