-basedsuffix
uk/ -beɪst/us/ -beɪst/-based suffix (MAIN PLACE)
used to form adjectives showing the main place or area in which something or someone works, lives, or does business:
a Manchester-based company
community-based programs
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Placing and positioning an object
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- clap
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- fit
- heap
- manoeuvre
- perch
- pop
- position
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- shelve
- shove
- situate
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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-based suffix (MAIN PART)
used to form adjectives describing the main thing from which a particular substance or object is made:
This is a cream-based sauce.
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Important and essential things
- amenity
- be-all
- big league
- biggie
- brick
- building block
- flagship
- heavyweight
- hot button
- kernel
- keynote
- keystone
- lifeblood
- nucleus
- pivot
- prerequisite
- priority
- requisite
- sine qua non
- supply
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