Definitions for establish
ɪˈstæb lɪʃes·tab·lish

Princeton's WordNet(3.60 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. establish, set up, found, launchverb

   set up or found

   "She set up a literacy program"

2. establish, found, plant, constitute, instituteverb

   set up or lay the groundwork for

   "establish a new department"

3. prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shewverb

   establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment

   "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

4. lay down, establish, makeverb

   institute, enact, or establish

   "make laws"

5. establish, giveverb

   bring about

   "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"

6. install, instal, set up, establishverb

   place

   "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"

7. build, establishverb

   build or establish something abstract

   "build a reputation"

8. establish, base, ground, foundverb

   use as a basis for; found on

   "base a claim on some observation"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. establishverb

   To make stable or firm; to confirm.

2. establishverb

   To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

3. establishverb

   To appoint, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

4. establishverb

   To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

5. Etymology: establissen,, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir, (Modern établir), from stabilio, from stabilis.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Establishadjective

   to make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm

2. Establishadjective

   to appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain

3. Establishadjective

   to originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions

4. Establishadjective

   to secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc

5. Establishadjective

   to set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel

6. Etymology: [OE. establissen, OF. establir, F. tablir, fr. L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., -ish, and cf. Stablish.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Establish

   es-tab′lish, v.t. to settle or fix: to confirm: to prove a point: to ordain: to found: to set up in business: to institute by law as the recognised state church, and to support officially and financially.—p.adj. Estab′lished, fixed: ratified: instituted by law and supported by the state.—ns. Estab′lisher; Estab′lishment, act of establishing: fixed state: that which is established: a permanent civil or military force: one's residence and style of living: the church established by law.—adj. Establishmentār′ian, maintaining the principle of the established church.—n. one who maintains this principle. [O. Fr. establir, pr.p. establissant—L. stabilīre—stabilis, firm—stāre, to stand.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. establish

   A technical phrase to express the quartering of any considerable body of troops in a country. Thus it is common to say, the army took up a position in the neighborhood of ——, and established the headquarters at ——.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'establish' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1940

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'establish' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3622

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'establish' in Verbs Frequency: #131

How to pronounce establish?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of establish in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of establish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of establish in a Sentence

1. James Comey:

   I think its good that he was able to finish the work and establish both that the Russia thing wasnt a hoax - that the Russians interfered in the election in a huge way, and thats really important, and then another piece of good news, the evidence didnt establish that any Americans conspired as part of that effort. That should be good news no matter what party youre associated with.

2. Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

   To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

3. The Belgian police union:

   The NSPV notes that the political government is looking for a scapegoat in connection with the attacks in Zaventem, as a trade union we can only be outraged about this state of affairs. [We are] heartbroken to establish that police would be pilloried without any kind of defense.

4. Catherine Pugh:

   Much has been done to begin the process of building faith between the police department and the community it seeks to serve, any interruption in moving forward may have the effect of eroding the trust that we are working hard to establish.

5. Ryan Bohl:

   It's really after the midterms that we are looking to see is this Congress about to establish a new bipartisan consensus in which there are unacceptable ways for the executive to conduct itself in foreign policy, we are looking not just within the Saudi (issue) but we are also looking in places like tariffs, the way that trade is negotiated.

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