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Definition of Jerry-building
1. Noun. Construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerry-building
Literary usage of Jerry-building
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"In those days it was still written as a separate word ; but jerry builder and
jerry building naturally suggested jerry- build, which is exemplified in 1890. ..."
2. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1903)
"Jerry -building. Worthies» or inr ure building; cheap contract work, ... I hop«.
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3. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1908)
"Steps for the prevention of jerry-building and speculative exploitation of land,
which are destined to result in future slums, must be included in any ..."
4. The Lancet (1898)
"590, 1067 Jerome, Dr. WJS, pharmacology, 1599 jerry-building at Belfast, 393,
539, 607 Jerusalem, British Ophthalmic Hospital at, annual statistics of the, ..."
5. The Education of the Heart by William Lonsdale Watkinson (1904)
"We sometimes speak of " jerry-building " ; but what jerry-building there is in
character! We begrudge the pains necessary to get through the ..."
6. Crimson Architectural Historians 1994-2002 by Stichting Rotterdam-Maaskant (2002)
"The previously vilified districts of jerry-building were transformed into
government-managed complexes of public housing; this was a more sensitive blow ..."
7. Report of the Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New by Edwin A. Merritt, Edwin A. Merritt, Jr (1911)
"... make the man who built give a thousand dollars more, it would not pay to build
a jerry building, but they do not give them exactly the same amount. ..."
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