Usually means: Form the basis or foundation.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. underlie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. underlie: Merriam-Webster
  3. underlie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. underlie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. underlie: Collins English Dictionary
  6. underlie: Vocabulary.com
  7. Underlie, underlie: Wordnik
  8. underlie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. underlie: Wiktionary
  10. underlie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. underlie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. underlie: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. underlie: Dictionary.com
  14. underlie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. underlie: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Underlie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. underlie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. underlie: Rhymezone
  19. underlie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. underlie: FreeDictionary.org
  21. underlie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. underlie: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. underlie: Financial dictionary
  2. underlie: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underlie: Encyclopedia

(Note: See underlain as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To lie in a position directly beneath something.
verb:  (transitive) To lie under or beneath.
verb:  (transitive) To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
verb:  (transitive) To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.
verb:  (mining) To underlay.

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