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English
Noun
ground-work (countable and uncountable, plural ground-works)
- Alternative spelling of groundwork
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Letters”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 198:"And I will tell you an idea that has struck me," replied he, "as a good ground-work for a drama. I do not know how it is, but I need more encouragement than I used to do, to begin any thing new. Now, talking over a plan, is a sort of beginning; and, careless as you are, you have an intuitive judgment."