What is the meaning of footing?

noun

• Status with respect to the relations between people or groups.
  • usage: "on good terms with her in-laws"; "on a friendly footing"
  • synonyms: terms
• A relation that provides the foundation for something.
  • usage: "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis"
  • synonyms: basis, ground
• A place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing.
  • synonyms: foothold

verb

• Pay for something.
  • usage: "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
  • synonyms: foot, pick
• Walk.
  • usage: "let's hoof it to the disco"
  • synonyms: foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it
• Add a column of numbers.
  • synonyms: foot, foot up