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Synonyms for basis

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for basis

that on which something immaterial, such as an argument or a charge, rests

a justifying fact or consideration

an established position from which to operate or deal with others

a fundamental principle or underlying concept

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Synonyms for basis

a relation that provides the foundation for something

the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

the most important or necessary part of something

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(Surveyor of the World), an early fourteenth century poem of twenty-four thousand lines ('Paradise Lost' has less than eleven thousand), relating universal history from the beginning, on the basis of the Biblical narrative.
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Such is the basis upon which Plato forbids, in his Republic, the division of property.
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