0 past simple and past participle of construct
1 to build something or put together different parts to form something whole:
Police officers are trying to construct the timescale of events leading up to the murder.
Military engineers hurriedly constructed a pontoon bridge across the river.
The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to ports on the coast.
Ditches were constructed to channel water away from the buildings.
This is more about whose history is being constructed and told, and how causation is attributed.
It was constructed with a rectangular steel section structure, timber frame and asbestos-cement sheet cladding.
Symbolic meanings are constructed through historical traditions, articulated contextually and reproduced only in practice.
