preassemble

1. 1.

   to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings

   Synonymsprefabricate

   Broaderproduce

   construction

Other forms of preassemble

past tense

preassembled·

present participle

preassembling·

third person

preassembles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about preassemble

What does preassemble mean?

preassemble means "to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings".

How many syllables are in preassemble?

preassemble has 4 syllables: pre-as-sem-ble. The stress falls on "as".

What is another word for preassemble?

Close synonyms include prefabricate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is preassemble a common word?

preassemble 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.