Definitions
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- noun A
building with a very largefootprint ; ahorizontal megastructure . - noun nonstandard A
gardener orlandscaper . - noun A piece of
heavy equipment used tomove earth .
Etymologies
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In the end, the company built its usual sprawlingSuperCenter, a one-story "landscraper" with a giant parking lot, as unwelcoming to pedestrians and as alien to local character as ever.
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: With the Oil Spill, What Will Become of Pass Christian? 2010
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Kunstler. com, he calls the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier and resembling a "gigantic brick Yule log" and says its glass bays look like Darth Vader's mask.
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The US tech firm celebrated the “topping out” of its new UK headquarters as the final beam was hoisted into place on Friday, marking the end of major construction of its horizontal skyscraper, nicknamed the “landscraper”.
Behold London’s ‘landscraper’! Google’s new UK HQ – as long as the Shard is tall Joanna Partridge 2022
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It’s got space for more than 4,000 employees, a rooftop garden with a running track, and has been dubbed a “landscraper” for being as long as a skyscraper is tall.
Google’s huge new London HQ is a ‘landscraper’ with a rooftop garden James Vincent 2017
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