GROUNDWORK: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:			'grawnd`wurk
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [n]  the fundamental assumptions underlying an explanation; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
	Synonyms:		base, base, basis, cornerstone, foot, foundation, foundation, fundament, fundament, substructure, understructure
	See Also:		assumption, bed, construction, explanation, raft foundation, structure, support, supposal, supposition
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Ground"work`\, n. That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. --Dryden.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		arrangement, base, basement, basic training, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, bottom, briefing, clearing the decks, cornerstone, equipment, familiarization, fixing, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, grounds, hardpan, infrastructure, makeready, making ready, manufacture, mobilization, pavement, planning, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, principle, processing, propaedeutic, provision, radical, readying, riprap, rock bottom, root, rudiment, seat, sill, solid ground, solid rock, spadework, stereobate, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, terra firma, training, treatment, trial, tryout, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, underpinnings, understruction, understructure, warm-up