prefab

See also: pre-fab

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Shortening.

Adjective

prefab (not comparable)

  1. prefabricated

Noun

prefab (plural prefabs)

  1. A prefabricated building.
    • 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
      Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.
  2. A prefabricated section of a building.
  3. (British) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
  4. (programming) A reusable object in a video game world.

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Verb

prefab (third-person singular simple present prefabs, present participle prefabbing, simple past and past participle prefabbed)

  1. To prefabricate.

See also
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