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JERRY-BUILDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jerry-builder mean?
• JERRY-BUILDER (noun)
The noun JERRY-BUILDER has 1 sense:
1. someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit
Familiarity information: JERRY-BUILDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("jerry-builder" is a kind of...):
builder; constructor (someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building))
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