[
UK
/ɪstˈæblɪʃ/
]
[ US /ɪˈstæbɫɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ɪˈstæbɫɪʃ/ ]
VERB
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place
Her manager had set her up at the Ritz -
institute, enact, or establish
make laws -
build or establish something abstract
build a reputation -
set up or found
She set up a literacy program -
use as a basis for; found on
base a claim on some observation -
bring about
The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth -
establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture
The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound -
set up or lay the groundwork for
establish a new department
How To Use establish In A Sentence
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- The areas of troilism and coprophilia are covered in some detail to establish to what degree they belong to the deviation of voyeurism.
- None of the fathers' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment.
- An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
- Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
- Between 1906 and 1907, this wide-ranging businessman established steam-powered tramways in various localities across Japan.
- He said the long term vision of the ginnery is to establish a fully fledged textile industry, which will produce finished materials if the company started producing more lint than what the customers could take.
- The value of individual liberty is not absolute, but is subject to the authority of established government.
- A spokesman said: ‘Following a further complaint, visits to the tea room this year established the conditions of the licence had again been broken.’
- It was not just established states that were eager narrowly to define the right of self-determination as a right end colonial status.