A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. / An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. / (military) Basic training.

Any of a family of third-generation programming languages (c.1964 on).

(attributive) Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China.

Initialism of British American Security Information Council.

The net balance of the combination of the current account and the capital account in a balance of payments.

in a fundamental, essential or basic manner / mostly; generally; for the most part

Misspelling of basically.

back to fundamental principles

(politics, chiefly Britain) A conscious return to principles such as self-respect, decency and honesty; especially the discredited policy of the Conservative government in the 1990s.

A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).