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📖 Определения и значения для слова foundation

📒 a principle, an idea or a fact that something is based on and that it grows from

  • Respect and friendship provide a solid foundation for marriage.
  • He laid the foundation of Japan's modern economy.
  • These stories have no foundation (= are not based on any facts).

📒 an organization that is established to provide money for a particular purpose, for example for scientific research or charity

  • The money will go to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
  • Many of the hospitals were originally established by religious foundations.
  • The research centre was set up by a charitable foundation.

📒 the act of starting a new institution or organization

  • The organization has grown enormously since its foundation in 1955.
  • She used the money to go towards the foundation of a special research group.

📒 a layer of stone, concrete, etc. that forms the solid underground base of a building

  • The builders are now beginning to lay the foundations of the new school.
  • The explosion shook the foundations of the houses nearby.
  • Footnotes are given at the bottom of each page.

📒 a skin-coloured cream that is put on the face under other make-up

📒 to cause people to question their basic beliefs about something

  • This issue has shaken the foundations of French politics.
  • an event which rocked the foundations of British politics
  • The scandal rocked the legal establishment to its foundations.
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