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basis

B1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ˈbeɪsɪs/US /ˈbeɪsɪs/
noun

the way things are organized or arranged; how often something happens

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So uh, and that was really the basis of Zip 2, and we ended up building quite a bit of software for the media industry—primarily the print media industry.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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