buildoutn.
/ˈbɪldaʊt/, U.S. /ˈbɪldˌaʊt/ Originally and chiefly North American.
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a. Planned construction or expansion esp. of physical infrastructure, housing, etc.; (also) progress toward the completion of this. In later use also: exhaustion of space available for continued expansion; full capacity.
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1902 Ann. Rep. U.S. War Dept. 1901–2: Rep. Chief Engineers Pt. 3 App. ZZ 2509 The work of build-out from station 15,000 was prosecuted vigorously and was immediately followed by a marked increase of depth in the channel opposite.
1976 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. The U.D.C. was now able to assure the completion of all its construction projects that had been started, although..such a ‘build-out’ would require about $300 million worth of appropriations from the state.
1984 N.Y. Times 15 Jan. xxii. 19/3 We're almost at a stage of full buildout of our road system. It's continually getting worse, and there's no chance of a new one.
1991 J. Garreau Edge City x. 375 At build-out, its 657 acres was scheduled to have more than five million square feet of office, retail, and hotel space.
2001 Nat. New Eng. May 30/2 In the town of Barnstable, for example, under current two-acre zoning minimums, it is said that the town is already 90 percent of the way towards total build-out.
2008 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) July 114/2 With more and more business coming online, the Internet underwent an enormous build-out of its underlying infrastructure.
b. In car manufacturing: the final production phase of a vehicle model, when manufacturing ends and the remaining models are bought by and delivered to dealers.
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1955 Washington Post 20 Sept. 16/3 The new models were brought out in one of the quickest model changeovers in industry history. Less than a week separated the buildout of 1955 and the assembly of the first 1956 models.
1961 Jrnl. Business 34 175/2 The near equality of sales figures of the two makes in August represents a production close-out of Falcon, with new models coming out in September, ‘build-out bonuses’ to Corvair dealers, [etc.]
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Jan. iii. 13/3 Build-out means dealers order the cars for the remainder of the model year equipped as they think consumers want them... When build-out starts, you can't order what you want.
2. Outward growth of a shoreline or other coastal feature due to the deposition of sediment; (also) an instance or result of this.
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1957 Naval Res. Rev. Mar. 5 There are two obvious ways in which the lack of build-out of the active delta can be explained.
1973 Geogr. Rev. 63 146 The archeology reveals that during both Roman and Turkish times the Peneus River was responsible for coastal build-out.
2018 Jrnl. Coastal Conservation 22 689/2 Over time these sand bodies attach to the Core Banks barrier, resulting in a build-out of the Core Sound shoreline.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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