单词 | building start |
释义 | > as lemmasbuilding start d. Originally U.S. The action or an act of commencing work on the construction of a house or other building. Also more fully building start, house start, housing start. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > building or constructing houses > initial start1937 1937 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 29 Oct. a3 (headline) Limit set for building start. Must be begun by Dec. 24, State warns Weber College Prexy. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Aug. 8/2 The Wyatt office claims about 406,000 ‘starts’ of dwelling units in the first five months of the year. 1951 Fin. Times 13 Sept. 4/4 The present disparity between housing starts and completions. 1974 Daily Tel. 11 Mar. 16 New house starts over the last three months are down to 40 per cent. of their level at this time last year. 2000 Town & Country Planning Dec. 354/1 House-building rates are low, at about 150,000 starts in England and Wales. 2015 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 10 Apr. b7 The Urban Development Institute's 2014 State of the Market report..shows the current ratio of new residents per housing start in Metro Vancouver is 2.1. < as lemmas |
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