BUILD IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does build in mean? 

• BUILD IN (verb)
  The verb BUILD IN has 1 sense:

1. make something an integral part of something else

  Familiarity information: BUILD IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUILD IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make something an integral part of something else

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

we can build in a special clause to make the contract better for you

Hypernyms (to "build in" is one way to...):

incorporate; integrate (make into a whole or make part of a whole)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP