- Author
- National Bureau of Standards
- Title
- Glossary of Housing Terms.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
- BMS 91, September, 3, 1942, 34 p.
- Keywords
- housing | dictionaries
- Abstract
- The purpose of this Glossary is to bring together for the convenient use of all persons concerned with housing the generally accepted definitions of a limited number of terms currently used in housing literature with definitions of closely related terms which are not fully defined in their special application to present-day housing in most dictionaries or glossaries. The compilers of this edition of the Glossary have found, as did the committee in charge of the first edition of the Glossary, that even in a 5-year period meanings have undergone transitions, and some terms have apparently lost their usefulness, and that many new words have appeared. The first edition of "A Glossary of Housing Terms," issued in 1937, was compiled by a committee from the five Federal agencies principally concerned with housing at that time and included definitions of approximately four hundred and seventy terms. This edition,the second, is a revision and expeansion of the first edition and includes definitions of approximately eight hundred terms. The work of revision was begun in January 1940, and included a review of definitions of housing terms included a review of definitions of housing terms included in dictionaries and glossaries, in codes and statutes, particularly those revised or issued since 1937, and in all literature issued by Government agencies concerned with housing.