Frame work can mean the task of building or assembling a frame, especially in carpentry. It is also used, often by mistake, to mean framework: a basic structure that supports something. The context will show which meaning is intended.
Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional frame work. Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same. Antonio Villaraigosa
It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work. Giorgio Napolitano