prefab

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Adjective

prefab (not comparable)

1. prefabricated

Noun

prefab (plural prefabs)

1. A prefabricated building.
2. A prefabricated section of a building.
3. (British) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.

Translations

prefabricated building

• Finnish: valmistalo (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

prefabricated section of a building

• Finnish: elementti (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} prefabbricato (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

1. To prefabricate.