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laying the groundwork

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables
lay-ing the -ground-work
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of lay the groundwork

Questions

What does laying the groundwork mean?
present participle and gerund of lay the groundwork

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