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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dropped ceiling" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in construction or interior design contexts to refer to a secondary ceiling that is hung below the main ceiling.
Example: "The office renovation included the installation of a dropped ceiling to improve acoustics and conceal wiring."
Alternatives: "suspended ceiling" or "false ceiling."
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dropped ceiling
noun
A secondary ceiling, suspended from above, used to conceal wiring, plumbing and ducts
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The four floors had been chopped into tiny rooms, and the original plaster ceiling on the garden level, studded with mouse droppings, had fallen to the floor, taking with it a dropped ceiling made of acoustical tile.
Bystander: I never understood the dropped ceiling.
But there was a dropped ceiling we didn't account for.
Twenty chandeliers replaced the old dropped ceiling that was installed almost forty years ago.
Above was a small disco ball wired to the faded dropped ceiling.
Andrew Jackness's set is a threatening dropped ceiling looming over a bare space.
The ductwork was professional, and the wiring was encased in a dropped ceiling.
With its wooden chairs, Formica tables, dropped ceiling and pinkish walls, Nazar is no beauty.
The renovations will include new carpeting, paint, a dropped ceiling and modern light fixtures.
A hatch reveals a crawl space created by a dropped ceiling.
Above the great stairway, a dropped ceiling covered an area where a large leaded skylight had been installed in 1917.
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