housebuilder
- n someone who builds houses as a business
- Most of the gossip concerns Piet Hanema, redhaired, stocky, 35-year-old father of two girls, housebuilder and restorer, a man "in love with snug, right-angled things.
- This month Taylor Wimpey, Britain's biggest housebuilder, failed to secure badly needed new funding from existing shareholders or new investors; its stock has dropped by 95% in the .