Establishment

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of establishing.
  • noun. The condition or fact of being established.
  • noun. Something established, as.
  • noun. An arranged order or system, especially a legal code.
  • noun. A permanent civil, political, or military organization.
  • noun. An established church.
  • noun. A place of residence or business with its possessions and staff.
  • noun. A public or private institution, such as a hospital or school.
  • noun. An established social order, as.
  • noun. A group of people holding most of the power and influence in a government or society. Often used with the.
  • noun. A controlling group in a given field of activity. Often used with the.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of establishing, ordaining, confirming, setting up, or placing on a firm basis or sure footing; the act of settling or fixing permanently, or of proving, substantiating, or making good: as, the establishment of a factory; the establishment of a claim.
  • noun. A fixed or settled condition; secured or certain permanence; fixity or certainty.
  • noun. Fixed or settled order of things; constituted order or system, as of government; organization.
  • noun. Fixed or stated allowance for subsistence; income; salary.
  • noun. That which has been established or set up for any purpose.
  • noun. The authoritative recognition by a state of a church, or branch of a church, as the national church; the legal position of such a church in relation to the state; hence, also, the religious body thus recognized by the state, and maintained and more or less supported as the state church: especially used of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland. See established church, under church.
  • noun. The quota or number of men in an army, regiment, etc.: as, a peace establishment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
  • noun. The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state.
  • noun. That which is established
  • noun. A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power.
  • noun. A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization.
  • noun. The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures; that which serves for the carrying on of a business
  • noun. a datum on which the tides are computed at the given port, obtained by observation, viz., the interval between the moon's passage over the meridian and the time of high water at the port, on the days of new and full moon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
  • noun. The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.
  • noun. That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.
  • noun. The establishment: the ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo. Sometimes capitalized: the Establishment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
  • noun. the act of forming or establishing something
  • noun. the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
  • noun. a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
  • noun. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
  • noun. (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat
  • noun. any large organization
  • Word Usage
    "And to obviate any difficulties or misunderstanding which might arise from leaving indeterminate the sum necessary to be appropriated for the civil establishment of each of the respective powers, that the sum be now ascertained which is indispensably necessary to be applied to those purposes, and which is to be held sacred under every emergency, and set apart previous to the application of the rest of the revenues, as hereby stipulated, for the purposes of mutual or common defence against any enemy, for _clearing_ the incumbrance which may have become necessarily incurred in addition to the expenditure of those revenues _which must be always deemed part of the war establishment_."
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