purpose-built

Modifies a noun

• jail: About the Museum: One of the first purpose-built county jails in England, it now tells the story of Buckingham.
• premise: Three years later the company moved to grand purpose-built premises at St Mary Ax in the City of London.
• resort: Being a purpose-built resort, there are also plenty of other attractions.
• headquarters: Our state-of-the-art facilities in our purpose-built headquarters in Crowthorne offer clients an exceptional suite of the latest technology fit to meet their needs.
• laboratory: There are plans to build a purpose-built laboratory adjacent to this room.
• stadium: For the 2005/06 season, Ospreys has moved into a new multi-million pound purpose-built stadium, possibly the best of its kind in Europe.

Modifying Another Word

• only: In Edinburgh and Glasgow only purpose-built black cab style taxis are permitted for general hire.
• not: The tribunal recognize, as stated in Decision 112, that latitude should be allowed where the home is in a building not purpose-built.
• largely: It has considerable atmosphere for somewhere that has been largely purpose-built.
• ever: ASDA has unveiled details of the countryâs first ever purpose-built timber frame store, which will open in Shaw, Oldham in February 2007.
• first: Former Leeds physical lecturer Don Robinson designed the University's - and the world's - first purpose-built climbing wall in 1964.

Infinitive complement

• support: The new development will replace many of the existing buildings with a coherent structure, purpose-built to support the delivery of 21st-century clinical care.
• house: They were well-hidden and purpose-built to house the patrol along with the necessary food, water, ammunition and explosives.
• accommodate: Inns by contrast were generally purpose-built to accommodate travelers.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The actors seem purpose-built for this sort of dross.

Preposition: in

• style: Les Coches is a small family resort, purpose-built in the style of a traditional mountain village in wood and stone.

Preposition: for

• sightseeing: The Yellow Submarine is a boat, purpose-built for underwater sightseeing.
• business: Sophos is the world leader in integrated threat management solutions purpose-built for business, education, government and service providers.
• teaching: This is tenth home, and is only the second time we have been in a building purpose-built for teaching.
• production: Enola begins in a small town in Kansas, purpose-built for production in the name of the US Second World War effort.