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underpin
We will be looking for further funding to underpin the manufacturing capability.
From the businessweekly.co.uk
SkyActiv technology will underpin every new Mazda model in the immediate future.
From the nbr.co.nz
Snappy groovers with chattery percussion patterns underpin cinematic sax themes.
From the guardian.co.uk
The army and pervasive security apparatus underpin the power structure in Syria.
From the guardian.co.uk
Synaesthesia seems to underpin some savants'enhanced memory and numerical skills.
From the newscientist.com
The next section looks at the environmental data that might underpin such claims.
From the economist.com
Reforms to underpin this new model are slow and hampered with vested interests.
From the economist.com
Those mortgages underpin securities that get divided into two basic categories.
From the charlotteobserver.com
High commodities prices will also continue to underpin the currency, Latif added.
From the bloomberg.com
- Support from beneath
- Corroborate: support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
- In construction, underpinning is the process of strengthening and stabilizing the foundation of an existing building or other structure. Underpinning may be necessary for a variety of reasons: *The original foundation is simply not strong or stable enough. ...
- (underpinning) A support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall or a metaphorical basis for something
- (Underpinning) A foundation replacement or reinforcement for temporary braced supports.
- (Underpinning) Supports placed under an existing wall to provide added strength.
- (Underpinning (knowledge and understanding)) that which ensures that tasks are not performed unthinkingly, but shows that candidates know why things are done in a particular way, and that they have a general and/or specific knowledge about the task overall.
- (Underpinning) A footing introduced beneath an existing footing for the purpose of transferring the foundation load to a lower depth, and more suitable material.
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