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Synonyms of foundation
1
a public organization with a particular purpose or function
- donated to a foundation that supported cancer research
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2
an immaterial thing upon which something else rests
- she had a good enough foundation in math to pursue an economics degree
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- anchorage,
- bed,
- brace,
- bulwark,
- buttress,
- framework,
- infrastructure,
- mount,
- prop,
- shore,
- stay,
- substratum,
- substructure,
- support
- assumption,
- justification,
- premise
- (also premiss),
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- rationale,
- supposition,
- theory,
- thesis,
- warrant
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The first known use of foundation was in the 14th century
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