Etymology

From half- +‎ builtCategory:English terms prefixed with half-#BUILT.

Adjective

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1. Only partially built; not finished or completed.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 122:

     In 1901 the Great Northern cancelled its agreement with the backers of the Big Tube, by which time the latter was half-built, and its big tunnels looked like a grandiose folly, since it would now not be allowed running rights into Finsbury Park main-line station.

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   • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49:

     North End station under Hampstead Heath was a half-built station that later became a Cold War bunker.

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