Definition of "prefabricate" []

• To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled. (verb-transitive)
• To make up, construct, or develop in an artificial, unoriginal, or stereotypic manner. (verb-transitive)

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• "I think the companies are trying too hard to prefabricate the kind of “sentient universe” idea that Grant Morrison has been known to go on about."
• "Prefabricated from the most traditional of materials, but that material -- because of the technology, the computing ability, the ability to prefabricate, make high-performance components out of timber -- very much at the cutting edge."
• "Apart from latrine construction, firms or individuals may be able to prefabricate components, such as slabs, blocks, pans and pipes."