foundation

[Example Sentences]:
1. The foundation hopes to launch the telescope by 2018.
2. The customer is the foundation of a business and keeps it in existence.
3. The foundation already has seen several significant benefits from the system.
4. The foundation for the initiative is a hardware platform and companion software architecture.
5. Perhaps the foundation may best be understood by what it is not.
6. The companies say the partnership will lay the foundation for an entirely new business model.
7. This can be an important foundation of stability in Libya, if we build on it.
8. The foundation is registered in the state as a charity.
9. The amount was less than the foundation had claimed.
10. He emerged to find his house had been knocked off its foundation and down the hill.
11. The Internet is the foundation of this economy, he said.
12. The goal is to give them good habits and skills to build a foundation, she said.
13. Unless we do something about this intellectual foundation, the problem will remain.
14. The foundation is now open for contributions and accepting new members.
15. Social networks are the standard foundation for customer engagement and marketing.

[Antonyms]disestablishment, superstructure, demolition

[Synonyms]base, groundwork, basis