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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
- 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.
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- Between 1906 and 1907, this wide-ranging businessman established steam-powered tramways in various localities across Japan.
- 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.’
- Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Lookout Keith Olbermann: now that you are more popular than Bill O\'Reilly in the cable news Neilson ratings, you must confront an even bigger monster, an even more tenacious adversary, an egomaniacally superior life-species: establishment liberal journalists.' Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann
- *Although the link between microorganisms and infection was yet to be established, the connection between pus—purulence—and sepsis, fever, and death, often arising from an abscess or wound, was well known to Bennett. The Emperor of All Maladies
- After leaving West Point in 1915, Eisenhower quickly established himself as a proficient trainer of young recruits.
- The areas of troilism and coprophilia are covered in some detail to establish to what degree they belong to the deviation of voyeurism.
- Alsace is becoming established as a reliable, perhaps even the most reliable, wine bar white available.
