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n. - The act of building or putting up.

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  • Many mosque opponents tried to draw a similarity between the Manhattan debacle and what they described as erecting a WWII Japanese memorial in Pearl Harbor.
  • After long and exacting toil he had succeeded in erecting a splendid place of worship.
  • An erector is a building contracting firm that specializes in erecting steel framed buildings; usually high rise buildings.
  • Gilmore had succeeded in erecting a heavy battery of siege-guns, each weighing twenty tons, within 1000 yards of Fort Wagner.
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