framework

A set of basic ideas or rules used to organize or develop something.

• We need a framework for our plan.
• The law provides a framework for protecting children.
• Their ideas helped build a new framework for teaching.

How to use it: a framework for something (The agreement provides a framework for future talks.); within a framework (The research takes place within a clear theoretical framework.)

Similar words: structure, system

Common phrases: framework for something, legal framework, within a framework, conceptual framework

The connected parts that support a building, vehicle, or other object and give it its shape.

• The building has a steel framework.
• Workers repaired the wooden framework of the roof.
• Only the framework remained after the fire.

How to use it: the framework of something (The framework of the roof is made of wood.)

Similar words: frame, skeleton

Common phrases: steel framework, wooden framework, framework of something