reinforced concrete

1. 1.

   concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses

   Synonymsferroconcrete

   Broaderconcrete

Questions about reinforced concrete

What does reinforced concrete mean?

reinforced concrete means "concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses".

What is another word for reinforced concrete?

Close synonyms include ferroconcrete. 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 reinforced concrete a common word?

reinforced concrete 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.