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📖 Определения и значения для слова underpinning

📒 something that supports or forms the basis of an argument, a claim, etc.

  • the theoretical underpinnings of the study

📒 the act of supporting a wall and making it stronger by putting metal, concrete (= a hard building material), etc. under it; the metal, concrete, etc. that supports the wall

  • The only way to save the building is through extensive underpinning.
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