Noun
The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. Michael Dell
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Charles Kettering
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. Eldridge Cleaver
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions. Fritjof Capra
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. Fernand Braudel
When a shield wears out, the framework still remains. Akan Proverb