Groundwork

Noun

 * 1) The foundation; the basic or fundamental parts that support or allow for the rest.
 * The discovery of the laws of electricity laid the groundwork for a century of innovation.

Verbs for Groundwork
accomplish—; add to—; depend on—; enhance—; exhibit—; expand—; finish—; form—; hurry—; lay—; manage—; perform —; plan—; spurn—; supervise—; under¬mine—; —benefits; —precedes.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 基礎, 基础
 * Finnish: perustus
 * German: Grundlage
 * German: Grundlage
 * German: Grundlage


 * Italian: fondamenti
 * Japanese: 基礎, きそ
 * Korean: 터
 * Latin: principium
 * Manx: obbyr undinagh
 * Spanish: cimiento
 * Spanish: cimiento