plural of pregnant construction

(rhetoric) An utterance in which more is implied than is said, such as "the beasts trembled forth from their dens" (i.e. trembling with fright).

An employee working on a physical construction site.

(law) A legal fiction describing a situation where a person or entity gained an unfair advantage over another by deceitful or unfair methods. Intent does not need to be shown.

(military, historical) In the German Democratic Republic, a person who did not bear arms but instead did construction work.

plural of construction soldier

plural of construct state

(grammar) A noun form associated especially with Afroasiatic languages, but occurring also in Iranian and others; used in construing a nominal with another, particularly for the object of a genitive.

plural of construction site

plural of constructive dismissal