Associations to the word «Establish»

Wiktionary

ESTABLISH, verb. (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
ESTABLISH, verb. (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
ESTABLISH, verb. (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
ESTABLISH, verb. (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

Dictionary definition

ESTABLISH, verb. Set up or found; "She set up a literacy program".
ESTABLISH, verb. Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department".
ESTABLISH, verb. 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".
ESTABLISH, verb. Institute, enact, or establish; "make laws".
ESTABLISH, verb. Bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth".
ESTABLISH, verb. Place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz".
ESTABLISH, verb. Build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation".
ESTABLISH, verb. Use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation".

Wise words

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