boundation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From bound +‎ -ation.

Noun[edit]

boundation (plural boundations) (India)

  1. The state or quality of being bound or obliged; obligation.
    • 1998, David Gribble, Real Education: Varities of Freedom[1], →ISBN, page 169:
      Me [David Gribble]: [] What do you mean when you say "Free Progress"? / Jacqueline: Like we were not - we had no boundations to learn anything - if we wanted to do painting we could just do it.
    • 2005, Km. Pratibha, Status and Problems of Elderly Women[2], page 117:
      After retirement the women especially aged; are found unable to cope and establish adjustment with the family members because they believe to live according to her own principal; they doesn[']t want to live in the boundation of their son and daughter-in-law.
    • 2020 April 20, I.D. Mangla, A-One INTRODUCTORY MACROECONOMICS: For CBSE Class XII Students 2020-21[3], Gyan Sagar Publications, page 5:
      For example, cheques, bank drafts etc. do not have legal boundation. One may accept or refuse them. It is also called fiduciary money, as it is accepted as money on the basis of trust between the payer and payee.
    • 2020 August 25, Prof. Kishor Manikrao Waghmare, Mrs. Manisha Kishor Waghmare, U.G.C. Care Listed Research Article Trends Of Pure Science And Applied Disciplines In Higher Education System In India And Abroad During Covid-19 Lockdown Period[4], Blue Diamond Publishing, →ISBN, page 295:
      There are a number of challenges and problems that rural women entrepreneur[]s face[] in their business[:] family boundations, time balancing between family and work []