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Textual thesaurus for "groundwork"

(noun) foot, foundation, fundament, base, understructure, substructure

lowest support of a structure

it was built on a base of solid rock; he stood at the foot of the tower


(noun) foundation, fundament, cornerstone, base, basis

the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture