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PURPOSE-BUILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purpose-built mean? 

PURPOSE-BUILT (adjective)
  The adjective PURPOSE-BUILT has 1 sense:

1. designed and constructed to serve a particular purposeplay

  Familiarity information: PURPOSE-BUILT used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PURPOSE-BUILT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose

Synonyms:

purpose-built; purpose-made

Similar:

purposeful (serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal)


 Context examples 


The insecticide was then unleashed in a purpose-built 6,550-square-foot ‘village’ in Burkina Faso, containing huts, plants, and breeding pools, and covered in netting to stop the insects escaping.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)



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