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establish
[ ih-stab-lish ]
verb (used with object)
- to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis:
to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
Antonyms: abolish
- to install or settle in a position, place, business, etc.:
to establish one's child in business.
- to show to be valid or true; prove:
to establish the facts of the matter.
Synonyms: substantiate, verify
Antonyms: disprove
- to cause to be accepted or recognized:
to establish a custom; She established herself as a leading surgeon.
- to bring about permanently:
to establish order.
- to enact, appoint, or ordain for permanence, as a law; fix unalterably.
Synonyms: decree
- to make (a church) a national or state institution.
- Cards. to obtain control of (a suit) so that one can win all the subsequent tricks in it.
establish
/ ɪˈstæblɪʃ /
verb
- to make secure or permanent in a certain place, condition, job, etc
to establish one's usefulness
to establish a house
- to create or set up (an organization, etc) on or as if on a permanent basis
to establish a company
- to prove correct or free from doubt; validate
to establish a fact
- to cause (a principle, theory, etc) to be widely or permanently accepted
to establish a precedent
- to give (a Church) the status of a national institution
- (of a person) to become recognized and accepted
he established himself as a reliable GP
- (in works of imagination) to cause (a character, place, etc) to be credible and recognized
the first scene established the period
- cards to make winners of (the remaining cards of a suit) by forcing out opponents' top cards
- also intr botany
- to cause (a plant) to grow or (of a plant) to grow in a new place
the birch scrub has established over the past 25 years
- to become or cause to become a sapling or adult plant from a seedling
Derived Forms
- esˈtablisher, noun
Other Words From
- es·tab·lish·a·ble adjective
- es·tab·lish·er noun
- re·es·tab·lish verb (used with object)
- su·per·es·tab·lish verb (used with object)
- un·es·tab·lish·a·ble adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of establish1
Word History and Origins
Origin of establish1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It led a successful campaign to reduce the pollution caused by coal-fired power plants in the US, helped limit the US power sector’s CO2 emissions, and helped establish regulations of diesel, shipping, and methane emissions.
It can never become mathematics, because those values aren’t fixed or established.
Having established itself as one of the leading e-commerce players in India, Amazon is now casting a wider net in the country.
Take advantage of that to consciously establish the new habits you actually want.
Investor groups commit to establishing lasting relationships with founders in the program and to uphold accountability for representation within their organizations and their investment portfolios.
Huckabee will also need to establish a reliable fundraising base, something that up until now has proved to be elusive.
The king set about punishing Marshal, opposing his attempts to establish his family in their lands in Ireland and Wales.
They backed him when the Sandinistas tried to establish their own Cuban-inspired dictatorship.
With Mac and Jesse we wanted to establish a friendship that was mostly a product of their common situation and enclosed world.
And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.
Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be counted above them both.
A proclamation was issued by government to establish a manufactory for white paper in England.
Siyes desired a man who would overthrow the Directory and establish a dictatorship: Barras was coquetting with the Bourbons.
So one's common sense fails to establish a definite reasonable time.
Congress resolved to establish the bank of North America, being the first regularly established bank in the country.
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