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Establishment   /ɪstˈæblɪʃmənt/  /istˈæblɪʃmənt/   Listen
Establishment

noun
1.
The act of forming or establishing something.  Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization.  "It was the establishment of his reputation" , "He still remembers the organization of the club"
2.
An organization founded and united for a specific purpose.  Synonym: institution.
3.
The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something.  Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization.  "The governance of an association is responsible to its members" , "He quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
4.
A public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence.
5.
Any large organization.
6.
(ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.  Synonym: ecesis.
7.
The cognitive process of establishing a valid proof.  Synonym: validation.



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"Establishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... leased the adjoining Beaufort grounds and gardens, spent 12,000 on the property, had the house remodelled in grandiose style, erected, close by, the "Clock" chapel and a minister's house, laid out a cemetery, known to this day as "Sharon," and thus made preliminary arrangements for the establishment in Chelsea of a Moravian settlement in full working order. In those days Chelsea was a charming London suburb. From the house to the river side lay a terrace, used as a grand parade; from the bank to the water there ran a short flight of steps; and from there the pleasure-boats, ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton

... weakness. The attention which was paid her, the wholesome food to which She had been long a Stranger, and her joy at being restored to liberty, to society, and, as She dared to hope, to Love, all this combined to her speedy re-establishment. ...
— The Monk; a romance • M. G. Lewis

... daughters. And all the time Corot pere wore the white cravat, a precise smile for customers and an austere look for his family. He held his old position as floorwalker and gave respectability to his good-wife's Millinery and Dressmaking Establishment. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard

... going on clear through to the Pacific Ocean; and if by sympathy or help you establish a slave empire, you sagacious Britons—["Oh, oh!" and hooting]—if you like it better, then, I will leave the adjective out—[laughter, Hear! and applause]—are busy in favoring the establishment of an empire from ocean to ocean that should have fewest customers and the largest non-buying population. [Applause, "No, no!" A voice: "I thought it was the happy people that ...
— American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various

... couldn't, surely, this well-dressed, high-bred, cultivated young compatriot, he couldn't be a mere employe, a steward or curator? No: probably a tenant. Antecedently indeed it might seem unlikely that a young Englishman should become the tenant of an establishment so huge and so sequestered; but was it conceivable that this particular young Englishman should be a mere employe? And was there any other alternative? She hearkened for a word, a note, that might throw light; but of such notes, such words, a young man's conversation, in the circumstances, ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland


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