Cryptic crossword clue
Ignore / item on a building site 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SKIP

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The straight part
We know that "Ignore/item on a building site" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case ignore/item on a building site = skip.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SKIP mean?

SKIP noun
  1. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
  2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
  3. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
  4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
  5. Skywave propagation
SKIP verb
  1. To move by hopping on alternate feet.
  2. To leap about lightly.
  3. To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
  4. To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
  5. To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
  6. To place an item in a skip.
  7. Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
  8. To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
  9. To leap lightly over.
  10. To jump rope.
  11. (crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
SKIP noun
  1. A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
  2. A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
  3. A skep, or basket.
  4. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
  5. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
  6. A beehive.
SKIP noun
  1. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
  2. (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
  3. The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
  4. (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
  5. The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
SKIP noun
  1. An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
SKIP noun
  1. (college slang) A college servant.

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