builder Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
    detergent builder.
  2. noun a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country
    • empire builder
  3. noun someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
    constructor.

WordNet

Build"er noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913