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English Dictionary: builder by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
builder
n
  1. a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
    Synonym(s): builder, detergent builder
  2. a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country; "empire builder"
  3. someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
    Synonym(s): builder, constructor
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Builder \Build"er\, n.
      One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a
      carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
  
               In the practice of civil architecture, the builder
               comes between the architect who designs the work and
               the artisans who execute it.                  --Eng. Cyc.
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