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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 purpose
Familiarity information: PURPOSE-BUILT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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