underlie

Definition

Examples

Several key principles underlie our company's customer service policy.

Synonyms

• supportthe activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
• anchora mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving

Collocations

• Easy basic principles that underlie the system
  describing basic principles that underlie the system (a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use)
• Medium issues that underlie poor team morale
  to issues that underlie poor team morale, meaning to prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
• Hard macroeconomic imbalances that underlie chronic inflation
  describing macroeconomic imbalances that underlie chronic inflation (of or relating to macroeconomics)
• Very Hard insidious motives that underlie seemingly benign philanthropy
  describing insidious motives that underlie seemingly benign philanthropy (beguiling but harmful)