transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪstæblɪʃmənt ]
( establishments)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The establishment of an organization or system is the act of creating it or beginning it. ( FORMAL )
His ideas influenced the establishment of National Portrait Galleries in London and Edinburgh.
= creation
N-SING : usu N of n
2.
An establishment is a shop, business, or organization occupying a particular building or place. ( FORMAL )
...a scientific research establishment.
...shops and other commercial establishments.
N-COUNT : usu with supp
3.
You refer to the people who have power and influence in the running of a country, society, or organization as the establishment .
Shopkeepers would once have been pillars of the Tory establishment...
N-SING : usu the N in sing