jerry-builder

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a builder who puts up cheap, poorly made buildings, often quickly and for speculative profit

   The jerry-builder used inferior timber and rushed the houses onto the market.

Formed from jerry-built + -er. Jerry-built has described cheap, carelessly constructed buildings since the nineteenth century; the origin of jerry in this compound is uncertain.

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