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According to WordNet, the noun "construction" has 7 sense(s).
101104637 the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades".
100873381 drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem".
106313651 a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner".
104341686 a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons".