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complete

Complete is the state of a home, building, or housing project when all the work needed to finish it has been done.

In plain English

It means there is no remaining work needed to finish the home, building, or housing project. The necessary work has been done, so the place or project is finished.

In context

Here, complete communicates that the repair work has been marked as in the finished state because the needed work has been done.

Situation
Setting up utilities and submitting maintenance, repair, and access requests
What it communicates
shows that the repair work has been marked finished.

Meaning limits

By itself, this term does not tell you when the work was finished or any other details about the work.

Examples

“After the last kitchen cabinet was fitted, the new house was complete.”

Core meaning

“The manager marked the building complete after the repair crew fixed the last leak.”

In context

  • finished Near Synonym

    In this sense, both describe a building or project with all required work done.

  • incomplete Opposite

    This describes a building or project for which required work is still not all done.