ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Half-built

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Half-built is an adjective meaning Only partially built; not finished or completed.

Meaning

Only partially built; not finished or completed.

Example Sentences

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include semiconstructed, semicompleted, incomplete, semifinished, nonfinished, uncompleted.

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