Definition of "housebuilding" [housebuilding]

• The building of houses (noun)

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• "They were not building any homes; housebuilding is at record lows and residential property values are on the slide."
• "As Campbell Robb, chief executive of the charity Shelter, puts it: "There is not enough affordable housing because of decades of under-investment in housebuilding.""
• "We must remember that this psychic radar is a late-early twentieth century innovation, and that our forefathers were technologically unequipped, so to speak, either to broadcast or to receive such signals, that "[w] hile the [inner-directed] frontiersman cooperated with his sparse neighbors in mutual self-help activities, such as housebuilding or politics, his main preoccupation was with physical, not with human, nature."