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Meanings of groundwork in English
The lowest support of a structure.
Work preparing or laying the ground for something that is planned to come later.
Usage of groundwork in English
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The Six Core Principles for Optimal Health provide the groundwork for prevention.
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Heavy rain and flooding would have prevented any significant groundwork, for example.
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Both are risky, but a bit of groundwork goes a long way.
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In short, the experienced producer lays the groundwork as efficiently as possible.
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But all agree that he and his colleagues are laying important groundwork.
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Framed in the groundwork of an agenda he couldn't begin to understand?
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The materials used as groundwork for mediæval embroideries were rich in themselves.
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The real groundwork of the stories told seems to have been twofold.
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The commission's recommendations are non-binding, but often lay the groundwork for legislation.
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He nodded, seemingly pleased to be able to dispense with the groundwork.
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Their agency is at once the groundwork of their mythology and demonology.
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She has, though, started laying the groundwork to improve the company's culture.
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Is DC really laying the groundwork for its own successful cinematic universe?
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The CDC has been starting the groundwork to make a new vaccine.
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And this belief forms the groundwork, furnishes the basic principles, of Spiritism.
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We've done an awful lot of groundwork over a number of years.
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