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Meaning of underbuilding | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A substructure; foundation; infrastructure.

Examples

“It appears from the evidence that although the Dean of Guild authorities considered the defective underbuilding to have been sufficient to warrant the demolition of the wall, it must have otherwise been in a weak and decayed condition.”
“The rubble concrete underbuilding has a uniform thickness of 5 feet, where the depth is less than 10 feet, but for greater depths the underbuilding is 6 feet thick at the top.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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