builder

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: builder

1	n	someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
2	n	a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: builder

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; boatbuilder
a person who builds boats; contractor
someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things; home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder, housebuilder
someone who builds houses as a business; jerry-builder
someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit; road builder
someone whose business is to build roads; ship builder, shipbuilder
a person who builds ships as a business; defense contractor
a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense; hauler, haulier
a haulage contractor; ship-breaker
a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap; subcontractor
someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor

“empire builder”

Types:: sodium pyrophosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate
a sodium salt of pyrophosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents; sodium tripolyphosphate
a sodium salt of triphosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents; tribasic sodium phosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, trisodium phosphate
the tertiary phosphate of sodium used as a builder in soaps and detergents

Type of:: material, stuff
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

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