Usually means: Supported or justified from beneath.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word underpinned:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. underpinned: Merriam-Webster
  2. underpinned: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underpinned: Collins English Dictionary
  4. underpinned: Vocabulary.com
  5. Underpinned, underpinned: Wordnik
  6. underpinned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. underpinned: Wiktionary
  8. underpinned: Dictionary.com
  9. Underpinned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Underpinned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. underpinned: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. underpinned: FreeDictionary.org
  13. underpinned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underpinned: Legal dictionary

(Note: See underpin as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (underpin)

verb:  (transitive) To support from below with props or masonry.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to form a basis of; to corroborate.
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