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- noun A small
hut that isportable and similar to aportaloo .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She could see rusting trailers and a beaten-up portacabin, a few overflowing containers, driving past fragments of steel sheeting, sections of piping, and a wooden boat under a tarpaulin.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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She could see rusting trailers and a beaten-up portacabin, a few overflowing containers, driving past fragments of steel sheeting, sections of piping, and a wooden boat under a tarpaulin.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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One possibility i can think of is that this sign is on a nature reserve and refers to a "hide" for observing wildlife from usually a camouflaged building like a shed or portacabin with narrow indows that you can look out of through binoculars or a telescope, and that this one is their accessible hide...
Things that crack me up #48 Kay Olson 2008
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As a side note, I went to Paris for the day on saturday, but unfortunately had a severe case of food poisoning, so if anyone saw me throwing up behind a disued portacabin, i can only apologise.
clamped 2006
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As we sat in out depressing little portacabin, with the sounds and sights of school children chattering about and watching the one pensioner a quarter hour toddle up the rain soaked disabled access ramp, all I could think was -- and the people of Iraq have been clammering for this?
Archive 2003-05-01 2003
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As we sat in out depressing little portacabin, with the sounds and sights of school children chattering about and watching the one pensioner a quarter hour toddle up the rain soaked disabled access ramp, all I could think was -- and the people of Iraq have been clammering for this?
Archive 2003-04-27 2003
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He found the Fall's portacabin, knocked on the door and asked for MES.
FallNews 1999
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Using Google's AdWords system, Primakabin purchased keywords including "portakabin," and misspelled variants such as "portacabin," to drive users to its own site when they searched for its competitor.
ClickZ News 2010
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Next time a politician wants to spend your money on a shiny new school with full wi-fi etc, ask him why the portacabin isn't good enough?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Next time a politician wants to spend your money on a shiny new school with full wi-fi etc, ask him why the portacabin isn't good enough?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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