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The definition of framework is a support structure or system that holds parts together, has something stretched over it or acts as the main structure.

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An example of a framework is four posts supporting a deck cover.
An example of a framework is an outline created before writing an essay.

See framework in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a structure, usually rigid, serving to hold the parts of something together or to support something constructed or stretched over or around it
the basic structure, arrangement, or system
frame of reference (sense )

See framework in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.
An external work platform; a scaffold.
A fundamental structure, as for a written work.
A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.

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