Word Meanings - JERRY-BUILDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.

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• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• UNSUBSTANTIALIZE
  To make unsubstantial.
• CHEAP-JACK; CHEAP-JOHN
  A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
• SLOVENLY
  1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange. 2. Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
• PROFESSIONALISM
  The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; - - opposed to Ant: amateurism.
• CHEAPNESS
  Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
• CHEAP
  A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak. (more info) purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer,
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• CONSTRUCTIONIST
  One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
• BUILDER
  One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
• CONSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
• CHEAPENER
  One who cheapens.
• CHEAPEN
  To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden. (more info) to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupon to trade. 1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer
• PROFESSIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional." Macaulay. "A professional
• PROFESSIONALIST
  professional person.
• UNSUBSTANTIAL
  Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.
• PROFESSIONALLY
  In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• NONPROFESSIONAL
  Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• MISCONSTRUCTION
  Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• RECONSTRUCTION
  The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. (more info) 1. The act
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• JERRY-BUILDER
  A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.