"a base de" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "preposition"
      },
      "expansion": "a base de",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "a"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "a base de bien"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He built his fortune by hard work alone.",
          "text": "Construyó su fortuna a base de trabajo duro.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Our government has donated and continues to donate, as aid to other nations, exorbitant amounts of money, but for the poor in their own country, not only does this aid not exist, but they try to recover the investment by stealing the people.",
          "ref": "2016 December 10, “El político ladrón (PDGE) te roba la felicidad, la salud, la vivienda, el futuro, la pensión, la diversión y el trabajo”, in Diario Rombe, archived from the original on 2020-06-14",
          "text": "Nuestro gobierno ha donado y sigue donando, en concepto de ayudas a otras naciones, cantidades desorbitantes de dinero, pero para los pobres de su propio país no sólo no existen esas ayudas sino que pretenden recuperar lo invertido a base de robar al pueblo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "solely down to; by ... alone; by sheer"
      ],
      "id": "en-a_base_de-es-prep-NUQgO8zW",
      "links": [
        [
          "down to",
          "down to"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a ˈbase de/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[a ˈβ̞a.se ð̞e]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a base de"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "a base de bien"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "preposition"
      },
      "expansion": "a base de",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "a"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish multiword terms",
        "Spanish prepositions",
        "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Spanish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He built his fortune by hard work alone.",
          "text": "Construyó su fortuna a base de trabajo duro.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Our government has donated and continues to donate, as aid to other nations, exorbitant amounts of money, but for the poor in their own country, not only does this aid not exist, but they try to recover the investment by stealing the people.",
          "ref": "2016 December 10, “El político ladrón (PDGE) te roba la felicidad, la salud, la vivienda, el futuro, la pensión, la diversión y el trabajo”, in Diario Rombe, archived from the original on 2020-06-14",
          "text": "Nuestro gobierno ha donado y sigue donando, en concepto de ayudas a otras naciones, cantidades desorbitantes de dinero, pero para los pobres de su propio país no sólo no existen esas ayudas sino que pretenden recuperar lo invertido a base de robar al pueblo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "solely down to; by ... alone; by sheer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "down to",
          "down to"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a ˈbase de/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[a ˈβ̞a.se ð̞e]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a base de"
}