Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.
- n. An external work platform; a scaffold.
- n. A fundamental structure, as for a written work.
- n. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A structure or fabric for inclosing or supporting anything; a frame; a skeleton: as, the framework of a building; the bones are the framework of the body.
- n. Structure; constitution; adjusted arrangement; system.
- n. A kind of fancy work made with yarn of silk or worsted drawn across a frame in two directions, and knotted or otherwise secured at the intersections, producing reticulated patterns, sometimes of considerable elaboration.
- n. Spinning done on a throstleor ring-frame; also, knitting done on a stocking-frame.
Wiktionary
- n. literally The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- n. figuratively The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- n. figuratively, especially in, computing A basic conceptual structure.
- n. literally The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything.
- n. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a structure supporting or containing something
- n. a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- n. the underlying structure
Etymologies
- frame + work (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent told reporters that he could accept the term "framework" instead of "treaty.”
“Mr. Solon said the term "framework" is much too weak.”
“Details of what they dubbed a "framework" agreement trickled out of the leadership, but remained somewhat fluid.”
“As soon as the reader falls into how the imaginary world functions, then the framework is all set for the action - any action - to follow.”
“Of conversation, additional curation, of re-use - the framework is all there.”
“And this framework is a roadmap to reject the theory that Article II trumps FISA.”
“NYU for the first time would proceed under what it calls a framework for expansion.”
“State television quoted a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hasan Qashqavi, as saying that Iason Athanasiadis had been released in, what he described as the framework of Tehran-Athens ties.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘framework’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
surface, administration, project, motion, machine, medical, vision, solid, shape, scheme, income, proceed and 205 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
more:
ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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EN - overused words
approach, project, expertise, agenda, benchmarking, sustainable, competence, mainstreaming, streamlining, roadmap, action, evaluation and 26 more...
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framework
concept, structure, requirement, infrastructure, tool, context, approach, perspective, environment, mechanism, architecture, platform and 4 more...
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