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establish | American Dictionary

establish
verb[ T ]
us/ɪˈstæb·lɪʃ/

establishverb[T] (START)

to start something that will last for a long time, or to create or set something in a particular way:
He helped to establish the University of California at Berkeley.
Once we establish the price, we can begin to market the product.

establishverb[T] (ACCEPT)

to cause someone or something to be accepted generally:
She’s established herself as a leading authority on urban problems.

establishverb[T] (PROVE)

to prove something or show the state of something, esp. by collecting facts or information about it:
The coroner has not yet established the cause of death.
[ + question word ]We’re trying to establish what happened here.

establish | Business English

establish
verb
uk /ɪˈstæblɪʃ/us
[ T,often passive ]
to start a company or organization that will continue for a long time:
The firm was established in 1822.
The company intends to establish a presence in Korea.
 establish yourself
[ T ]
to reach a successful position over a period of time:
He has established himself as one of the most active business leaders in the community.
The company quickly established itself as a recognized global brand.

Examples of establish

establish
Although establishing new schools is not permitted, there is always a loophole that can be exploited.
To sum up, we have thus far established a sufficient condition for eradication to be optimal, and we have characterized the other possible qualitative solutions.
The health authority's representatives again sought to establish a sense of purpose and to embody this in a method of working.
In so doing, he treats the parties' identities as having been established.
The desired client profiles had been established a priori to ensure that a broad range of clients would be recruited.
But what remains to be established is the actual duration threshold below which a sequence will no longer be perceived as hiatus.
And there are the broader issues of macro- and microeconomic policy that play important roles in establishing savings levels.
Whenever an equilibrium force-law is required, it is always essential to establish that the two surfaces have stopped moving before the equilibrium displacements are measured.
If the cortex were organized in this manner, one would suspect that experimental results would have established such themes, as it has for subcortical structures.
Moreover, extraneous factors influenced the boundaries which infants established for themselves, making unrealistic a straightforward comparison of age groups.
Studies of the motet have tended, likewise, to frame analysis in the terms established by cyclic masses and their forms of musical elaboration.
Men sought to endow each son with sufficient land to establish a separate household.
In designing tasks, researchers need to worry about establishing reliable and valid measures.
In the following analysis, primary and nonprimary descriptors will be used for establishing design tasks through one or more design relations.
Therefore, we establish an agenda for future research in this area.
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