based

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used to form adjectives showing the main place or area in which something or someone works, lives, or does business:

a Manchester-based company

community-based programs

used to form adjectives describing the main thing from which a particular substance or object is made:

This is a cream-based sauce.

used to form adjectives showing the main fact or idea from which something has been developed:

They claimed that the company's recruitment practices constitute gender-based discrimination.

They discussed introducing a performance-based pay system.

if one thing is based on another, it is developed from it:

be based on sth All these new products were based on extensive market research.

market-based policy decisions

working or doing business in a particular place, or in a particular way:

Where are you based? In Berlin or Frankfurt?

be based in The company is based in Toronto.

Tokyo-based/UK-based, etc. It's a US-based security company.

You have the option of being either home-based or office-based.

web-based/internet-based We are dependent on our web-based marketing activities.