foundational work

collocation in English

meaningsoffoundationalandwork

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foundational
adjective
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/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən.əl/us
/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən.əl/
forming the base from which everything ...
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work
noun
uk
/wɜːk/us
/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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(Definition offoundationalandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We then directed our attention to whether the whole of thefoundationalworkneed proceed.
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She is perhaps best known for herfoundationalworkin the field of comparative endocrinology.
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Hisfoundationalworkon algebraic geometry is at a higher level of abstraction than all prior versions.
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He also didfoundationalworkwhich later developed into evolutionary economics.
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Herfoundationalworkconceptualizing learning disabilities as a social construction presents the field of disability studies.
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Over the next two years, he gained considerable notoriety for hisfoundationalworkon doctrine for small wars, insurgency and counter-insurgency.
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Thefoundationalworkon smooth singularities is formulated as the construction of equivalence relations on singular points, and germs.
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Hisfoundationalworkon geometry and symbolic dynamics continued in 1898 with the study of geodesics on surfaces of negative curvature.
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By this time, she had completedfoundationalworkon trigonometric series.
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During the summer of 2008,foundationalworkwas carried out, with massive underground trenches created to house the services for the building.
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It requires a powerful intellectual commitment to perseverance and solid,foundationalworkhabits, and are regarded as more rigorous than the general course offerings.
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It is now regarded as afoundationalworkin international law.
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He has also providedfoundationalworkin many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the economics of information.
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Thisfoundationalworkled to a rich line of research on the biological functioning of glucocorticoids.
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His work ranges from theoretical/foundationalwork, to algorithmic analysis and design for optimization problems, and to applications such as data communication and transportation networks, and electric power generation.
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He is one of the founders of the field of social network analysis, and wrote some of thefoundationalworkon networks of elites and organizational networks.
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Schwinger'sfoundationalworkon quantum field theory constructed the modern framework of field correlation functions and their equations of motion.
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