framework

[ freym-wurk ]

noun

1. a basic structure, plan, or system, as of concepts, values, customs, or rules: The empire foundered, leaving its people in anarchy and lawlessness, as the framework of their society and culture collapsed around them.

   The bill, if passed, will provide a legal framework for privacy and data protection.

   The empire foundered, leaving its people in anarchy and lawlessness, as the framework of their society and culture collapsed around them.

2. a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something.
3. a frame or structure composed of parts fitted and joined together.
4. the construction of frames.
5. work done in, on, or with a frame.

framework

/ ˈfreɪmˌwɜːk /

noun

1. a structural plan or basis of a project
2. a structure or frame supporting or containing something
3. frames collectively
4. work such as embroidery or weaving done in or on a frame

Other Words From

• un·der·frame·work noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of framework¹

First recorded in 1635–45; frame + work

Example Sentences

So, the intelligence community worries about who are the terrorist groups or the foreigners, or external threats that might challenge the institutions in the democratic framework of a country.

From MIT Technology Review

The company aims to introduce about 75 new electric car models through by 2029, according to its green-finance framework.

From Fortune

Changes within company law itself must occur, so that corporations are better positioned to support the restoration of that framework and govern themselves internally in a manner that respects their workers and society.

From Fortune

Having a sensibly regulated and moderated framework for how platforms work with news publishers — which helps to maintain the news ecosystem which Facebook and Google claim they’re so committed to— hat’s what everybody wants to see.

From Digiday

Within the gold industry itself, companies are building policies around the World Gold Council’s Responsible Gold Mining Principles — a comprehensive framework that will align mining companies with the sentiments of ESG investors.

From Ozy

Law has been rebuilt in the last 50 years to be an instrument of control, not a framework for human responsibility.

From The Daily Beast

The legal jungle must be bulldozed, and replaced by radically simpler framework of goals and principles.

From The Daily Beast

What if healthy sexuality was the framework that young adults used to process every sexual message that they encounter?

From The Daily Beast

A good framework for this is seen in reaction to street harassment, as with Santagati.

From The Daily Beast

The basic plot of The Virgin Spring, which was lifted off a Medieval tale, became the framework for The Last House on the Left.

From The Daily Beast

The legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.

From Project Gutenberg

The only difference was that it rested on a framework attached to a single wheel directly underneath.

From Project Gutenberg

The framework in which our industrial life is set cannot be readily broken asunder.

From Project Gutenberg

Against the wall near Tatsu stood a light framework of wood with the silk already stretched and dried for painting.

From Project Gutenberg

As years pass and conditions vary, it becomes necessary to make changes in the framework of a government to meet such needs.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• groundwork
• plan
• scheme
• structure