housing start

1. 1.

   the act of starting to construct a house

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Questions about housing start

What does housing start mean?

housing start means "the act of starting to construct a house".

Is housing start a common word?

housing start is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.