portacabin

English

Alternative forms

• port-a-cabin

Etymology

From the trademark Portakabin, itself from portable cabin.

Noun

portacabin (plural portacabins)

1. A prefabricated hut that is transportable, often used as an office or for storage.
   • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 55:

     It was a standard port-a-cabin, twenty by twelve feet, with two small beds at either end, two lockers, and a table and chair between them.

   • 2007, S.A.S.: Special Ace Supply (teacher), Quick Brown Fox Publication, →ISBN, page 11:

     At least I'm not in a portacabin. Whenever I find myself heading towards a peripheral portacabin, I experience the same visceral feeling that the French aristocrats had when they rode the tumbrels to Madame Guillotine.

   • 2009, Julian Beirne, Diary of a Sapper, Julian Beirne, →ISBN, page 298:

     We have done our portacabin out with balloons, paper chains and “Support troop is One Step Beyond.” It looks all Christmassy, with the snow, it is quite good.

Further reading

• portable building on Wikipedia.Wikipedia