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What does from the ground up mean?

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Adverb
  1. (idiomatic) From the beginning; starting with the basics, foundation, or fundamentals.
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So I was going to school full time and working full time and learning the industry from the ground up.
It means that the airplane is essentially rebuilt from the ground up with new or reconditioned parts.
The leaves are glossy and green, covering the trunk from the ground up and the branches are upsweeping.
My family believes in hard work and learning the business from the ground up.
We are presented with a glorious opportunity to remake our legal system from the ground up, and I suggest we take it by the ears and run with it.
If we figure out that the probable ancestor of a flying group was a bipedal cursorial form, then flight likely evolved from the ground up.

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