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builder

/bil-der/US // ˈbɪl dər //UK // (ˈbɪldə) //

建设者,建造者,建筑商,建造商

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who builds.
    • : a person who constructs buildings under contract or as a speculation.
    • : a substance, as an abrasive or filler, added to soaps or other cleaning agents to increase their effectiveness.

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Examples

  • Most of that cost is getting passed from the builder to the consumer, Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, told Fortune.

  • Student builders started a spreadsheet to track progress on buildings.

  • The builders of Stonehenge had lived — and partied — here while they erected the giant stones.

  • If a builder added one new studio apartment in southeastern San Diego, they’d pay the community $9,883.

  • On Earth, builders can add a chemical to reduce the amount of water needed in cement.

  • And there, the sand castle builder and tag player who loved her aunt more than science would be buried.

  • Of course, the prevailing mythos presents high school football as the ultimate builder of character.

  • It was designed, with help from an architect and builder, by her consort Prince Albert.

  • But one small builder in the San Fernando Valley in California is adding a new standard: a dozen-odd solar panels.

  • A builder by profession, he quickly became something of a Forrest Gump of budgetary doom.

  • Mr. Willis gained a wide and deservedly high reputation as the builder of many Cathedral organs—upwards of sixteen.

  • The writer saw this organ in the builder's factory in London before it was shipped to Sydney.

  • The builder himself will, in all probability, be obliged to rest contented with the consciousness of his talent.

  • He means the builder's plummet, which Zorobabel shall hold in his hand for the finishing the building.-Ibid.

  • If he has caused the son of the owner of the house to die, one shall put to death the son of that builder.