Meaning & use
construction site
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Meanings
nouncountable
An area where a building, road, or other structure is being built or repaired.
Grammar: Countable noun phrase: a construction site, two construction sites.
Patterns
- at a construction site
- on a construction site
- work at a construction site
- visit a construction site
The new school is being built on a construction site near the park.
Workers at the construction site wear hard hats and safety boots.
The road was closed because of a large construction site in the city center.
nouncountable
A place where building work is happening, considered as a workplace or a source of noise and traffic.
Grammar: Often used with 'near', 'around', or 'next to' when talking about disturbance.
Patterns
- live near a construction site
- be close to a construction site
- pass a construction site
Living next to a construction site can be very noisy.
The bus had to go slowly past the construction site.
Residents complained about dust from the construction site.
Word forms
| plural | construction sites |
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Common combinations
- a construction site accident
- The company reported a construction site accident last week.
- construction site safety
- Construction site safety rules must be followed at all times.
- work on a construction site
- He works on a construction site during the summer.
- a busy construction site
- The area around the station is a busy construction site.
- a construction site manager
- The construction site manager checked everyone's equipment.
Synonyms and how they differ
- building site
- Very common in British English, especially for a site where a building is going up.
- work site
- More general; it can mean any place where work is done, not only building work.
Word family
- construct verb
- To build something such as a house, road, or bridge.
- construction noun
- The process or business of building things.
- construction worker noun
- A person whose job is to build things.
Commonly confused: construction site or construction?
construction site vs construction
'Construction' is the activity or industry; a 'construction site' is the actual place where it happens.
Practice
Visitors must wear a helmet when they enter the ______.
Choose one answer.
The singular 'construction site' fits after 'the'. The plural 'sites' is wrong with 'the' here, 'construction's site' is not a natural phrase, and 'construction site is' would make the sentence ungrammatical.
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