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Meaning of half-built | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Only partially built; not finished or completed.

not-comparable

Examples

“In 1901 the Great Northern cancelled its agreement with the backers of the Big Tube, by which time the latter was half-built, and its big tunnels looked like a grandiose folly, since it would now not be allowed running rights into Finsbury Park main-line station.”

“North End station under Hampstead Heath was a half-built station that later became a Cold War bunker.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

half-caf half-caste half-clammed half-cocked half-cracked half-cut