underpin

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Meaning

To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.

To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.

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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy. John Cleese

In sum, therefore, many of the assumptions and analytical frameworks that underpin the instrumental argument for free markets and inequality are either invalid or much weaker than is commonly supposed. Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability. Kevin Rudd

UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing. Andy Stern

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives. Donald L. Carcieri

My country has been on the verge of socialism, which has put us in a state of widespread corruption, serious economic recession, high criminality rates and unending attacks on the family and religious values that underpin our traditions. Jair Bolsonaro

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