bedrock
bed rok
- n solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil
- n principles from which other truths can be derived
- The estimates transmitted herewith give the requirements of the bedrock standard of living.
- With proper medical attention a bedrock need, Challenger says a "wide swath of companies" have a need for physical therapists, nurses, medical records technologists and digital .
- Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Essenes ever existed at all a claim that has shaken the bedrock of biblical scholarship.