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- noun The
surface area of thefloor in abuilding .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Overall, the value of retail sales according to the BRC/KPMG monitor were up 6.9% on April 2010, and by 5.2% on a like-for-like basis, which strips out the impact of retailers adding to their floorspace over the past year.
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I have floorspace, an outdoor table re-purposed as a new work desk, shortly to be paired up with an office chair that's been in the garage forever, and a window to look out of as soon as I can trim the overgrown bushes outside.
Recycling Rules! p_n_elrod 2010
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"The average house has 85 sq m of floorspace and in new builds' it's just 76 sq m."
Ikea's new British furniture range: darker woods, shallower wardrobes, higher beds 2011
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For sceptics, the supermarket industry has already opened more floorspace than is good for its long-term economic health.
Every little bit hurts: share slump is not the only thing to worry Tesco 2012
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I have floorspace, an outdoor table re-purposed as a new work desk, shortly to be paired up with an office chair that's been in the garage forever, and a window to look out of as soon as I can trim the overgrown bushes outside.
p_n_elrod: Recycling Rules! p_n_elrod 2010
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This includes all the work for an office building with around 12,000 m² of floorspace for around 500 people, together with underground parking for 300 or so cars.
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Although putting a traditional desk in the room would have swallowed up the floorspace, he still needed a work surface of some sort.
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The master plan for the docklands called for lots of buildings with even less floorspace than the buildings in Helsinki that people had been fleeing for years in favor of bigger, suburban homes.
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The master plan for the docklands called for lots of buildings with even less floorspace than the buildings in Helsinki that people had been fleeing for years in favor of bigger, suburban homes.
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He didn't give a rip about the empty floorspace in front of him.
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