ESTABLISHMENT


Meaning of ESTABLISHMENT in English

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

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