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say it: pree-FA-bri-kayt
prefabricate is a verb meaning "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". It is pronounced /pɹiˈfæbɹɪˌkeɪt/ — pree-FA-bri-kayt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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
construction
produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prefabricate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.