jerry-building

1. 1.

   construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit

   Broaderconstruction

Questions about jerry-building

What does jerry-building mean?

jerry-building means "construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit".

How many syllables are in jerry-building?

jerry-building has 5 syllables and divides as jer-ry--bu-il-ding under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is jerry-building a common word?

jerry-building 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.