base on

Verb

Meaning

(transitive) To ground (an opinion, a conclusion, etc) on.

(transitive) To derive (a work) from.

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Examples

All of us in business have a responsibility to maintain the industrial base on which we depend and the society whose adaptability - and stability - we may have taken for granted. Andy Grove

By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American. Newt Gingrich

A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. Paul Davies

Certain combinations of dimensions produce harmonious results, but since the time of the ancient Greeks no system of design, consistently base on that knowledge, has been formulated. Ernest Flagg

He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world. Yōko Ogawa

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line. Ron Wyden

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