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groundwork

English

  1. 🔊 preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation
    “we are prepared today because of groundwork that was done ten years ago”
  2. 🔊 lowest support of a structure
    “it was built on a base of solid rock”
  3. 🔊 the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
    “the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture”

Similar words

foundation base fundament foot substructure understructure basis base foundation fundament cornerstone arrangement base basement basic training basis bearing wall bed bedding bedrock bottom briefing clearing the decks cornerstone