half-built

English

Etymology

From half- +‎ built

Adjective

half-built (not comparable)

1. Only partially built; not finished or completed.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 122:

     In 1901 the Great Northern cancelled its agreement with the backers of the Big Tube, by which time the latter was half-built, and its big tunnels looked like a grandiose folly, since it would now not be allowed running rights into Finsbury Park main-line station.

Related terms

• half-finished