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Verb: prefabricate  pree'fa-bri,keyt
  1. (construction) manufacture sections of a building, especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site
    "They prefabricated the modular home components";
    - preassemble
     
  2. Produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally
    "The committee prefabricated excuses for their failure"

Derived forms: prefabricated, prefabricating, prefabricates

Type of: create, make, produce

Encyclopedia: Prefabricate