pre-fab

English translation: prefabricated

13:24 Jul 3, 2004

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
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English term or phrase: pre-fab

Any tenant of organisation moving from a house to a flat, maisonette or low demand bungalow or PRE-FAB will be awarded points.

What is intended by pre-fab. Thank you.

Patheja

Selected answer:prefabricated

Explanation:
It means that the parts are made in sections that are easy to assemble and ship.

pre·fab ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prfb) Informal
adj.
Prefabricated.

n.
Something prefabricated, especially a building or section of a building.

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Note added at 5 mins (2004-07-03 13:30:08 GMT)
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These are examples of pre-fab homes:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=pre-fab home&ie=UTF-8&hl...

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Note added at 8 mins (2004-07-03 13:33:41 GMT)
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(well, some of them are; others are random pieces of wood!)

Pre-fab houses were often put up to address housing shortages after the war.
The emphasis is on ease of putting the house up, cost (not expensive) and simplicity of design.

Selected response from:

awilliams
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:19

Grading comment

Thanks to all of you. I was talking about UK.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +15

prefabricated

awilliams

4 +13

pre-fabricated housing

RHELLER

3 +6

prefabricated

Nik-On/Off

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

prefabricated

Explanation:
Panelized (prefab, pre-fab, pre-fabricated, prefabricated, panelised) home
http://www.postbeam.com/1dealership.html

Nik-On/Off
Ukraine
Local time: 20:19
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in category: 4

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +13

pre-fabricated housing

Explanation:
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Note added at 6 mins (2004-07-03 13:30:58 GMT)
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also called modular homes

Pre-Fabricated Homes at Modular-usa.com. Pre-fabricated homes information presented at Modular-usa.com. Pre-fabricated homes sources by clicking above. ...
www.modular-usa.com/pre-fabricated_homes_n.html

population. Most of the pre-fabricated houses are not well designed,
as some of them have no kitchen facilities, latrines or showers. ...
www.who.int/disasters/repo/13428.pdf

RHELLER
United States
Local time: 11:19
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 101

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Elena Petelos

2 mins

agree

Jérôme Haushalter

3 mins

agree

Vicky Papaprodromou

5 mins

agree

awilliams

6 mins

neutral

Gareth McMillan: In UKE this has a specific colloquial meaning only IMO. Please see my comment on Amy's answer.

36 mins

agree

Graciela Carlyle

37 mins

agree

Nanny Wintjens

55 mins

neutral

Kpy: Not just any pre-fabricated housing in this context. I agree with Gareth.

1 hr

agree

Madeleine MacRae Klintebo: even though I agree with Gareth and Kpy, Associated with post 2nd WW housing.

1 hr

agree

Aleksandra Gjoreska

7 hrs

agree

Rosemary Schmid: Modular homes in the USA have evolved over many years. The early ones were shabbily built. Nowadays, there have been wonderful improvements. They're still less expensive than "stick-built" homes.

8 hrs

agree

Eva Karpouzi

11 hrs

agree

airmailrpl: -

23 hrs

agree

Will Matter

1 day 10 hrs

agree

Alfa Trans (X)

2 days 53 mins

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +15

prefabricated

awilliams
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:19
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

Thanks to all of you. I was talking about UK.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Elena Petelos

1 min

agree

Gareth McMillan: Your last note is bang on in UKE. A pre-fab is an everyday term for exactly these low cost house put up after the war. It is not used to describe modern modular constructed houses.

34 mins

agree

Graciela Carlyle

36 mins

agree

Craft.Content

49 mins

agree

Nanny Wintjens

54 mins

agree

Kpy: I agree with Gareth. In this context pre-fab refers to prefabricated housing erected as a short-term measure immediately post world War II. Some of them survive to this day.

1 hr

agree

Madeleine MacRae Klintebo: Agree with Gareth and Kpy.

1 hr

agree

LJC (X): agree with Gareth and Kpy too

4 hrs

agree

DGK T-I: agree (UK) last note & Gareth - the classic British postwar prefab (which is what people mean in the UK by 'prefabs') is pictured in:http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/interesting/prefabs/p... (usually rented from local councils/housing assoc.)

7 hrs

agree

Jörgen Slet

9 hrs

agree

Eva Karpouzi

11 hrs

agree

Asghar Bhatti

15 hrs

agree

airmailrpl: -

23 hrs

agree

Will Matter: good initial explanation.

1 day 10 hrs

agree

Alfa Trans (X)

2 days 53 mins

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