central/basic/fundamental etc tenet• This was a central tenet of the bureaucratic model.• Another basic tenet of the free market is the free flow of labour.• Trying to force people into unwantedrolesviolates the most basic tenet of Westernculture.• Thus the vast age of the Earth became the central tenet of geology.• This particular view has become one of the central tenets of the present Conservative government's economicpolicy.• One of the basic tenets of the campaignfinance system is disclosure.• In this respect Hirschi shared the long-standing positivist rejection of the central tenet of classicism: deterrence.• They boiled down to three basic tenets.
Origintenet
(1500-1600)Latin“he or she holds”, from tenere; → TENOR