See Also: building(dictionary)
building(dictionary)
BUILDING, estates(law)
building block(dictionary)
Position building(finance)
Seagram Building(encyclopedia)
Building (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Chrysler Building(encyclopedia)
body building(dictionary)
Transamerica building(dictionary)

building (iou)



building noun. ME.
[formed as BUILDER + -ING1.]
A thing which is built; a structure, an edifice; a permanent fixed thing built for occupation, as a house, school, factory, stable, church, etc. ME.
The action of BUILD verb. LME.
A company (of rooks); a rookery. rare. LME.
Comb.: building-block (a) = BLOCK noun 4b; (b) one of the temporary supports for a ship's keel while the ship is being built; building-brick = BRICK noun 2, 2b; building-lease a lease of land upon which to build; building line a prescribed limit beyond which a building must not extend; building society: accepting investments at interest, and lending to persons building or buying houses etc.; building-term the duration of a building-lease.