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单词 establishment
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Definition of establishment in English:

establishment

noun ɪˈstablɪʃm(ə)ntɛˈstablɪʃm(ə)ntəˈstæblɪʃmənt
  • 1mass noun The action of establishing something or being established.

    the establishment of an independent government
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Does your party support the establishment of a criminal tribunal to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity in East Timor?
    • The Council recommended the establishment of an independent tribunal, plus further rights of appeal.
    • Cosgrove thanked the previous committee for their work and strongly recommended the establishment of a new committee.
    • China is advocating the establishment of a free-trade zone encompassing China and ASEAN.
    • He advocated the immediate establishment of an ad hoc reform committee.
    • Bush also proposed the establishment of a democracy fund within the U.N. in an effort to spread democracy and stability.
    • On 17 August 1945 they heard a radio message from Jakarta announcing the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia.
    • Wahid proposed the establishment of an independent monitoring commission to work toward peace, but was ousted in July 2001.
    • Last week councils welcomed the establishment of the commission.
    • Other key pledges include the establishment of crime prevention funds for various neighbourhoods.
    • In 1917 the British issued the Balfour Declaration, which advocated the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
    • The party also opposes the establishment of a separate Tamil state and the various devolution packages.
    • Do you support the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    • Preventing the establishment of a state religion is quite clearly a permissible goal under Locke.
    • The plan proposes the establishment of a new village centre at The Quay.
    Synonyms
    setting up, start, getting going, initiation, institution, formation, founding, foundation, inception, creation, inauguration, organization, building, construction, installation
    1. 1.1archaic count noun A marriage.
      her chief solicitude was to procure an affluent establishment for their daughter
  • 2A business organization, public institution, or household.

    hotels or catering establishments
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The waiters and staff of the establishment were clearly not amused.
    • It's very nice that your establishment requires their staff to dress up for Halloween.
    • Product mix and how a retail establishment looks play huge roles in attracting customers.
    • There are more than 1.1 million retail establishments across the country, an average of one every three square miles.
    Synonyms
    business, place of business, premises, firm, company, concern, enterprise, venture, organization, operation, undertaking, industry
    factory, plant, house, shop, store, emporium, office, bureau, agency, franchise, practice, partnership, consortium, cooperative, corporation, conglomerate, group, combine, syndicate
    informal outfit, set-up
    institution, place, premises, foundation, institute
  • 3A group in a society exercising power and influence over matters of policy, opinion, or taste, and seen as resisting change.

    he scandalized the Establishment of his day
    as modifier she became an establishment figure
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the new British Establishment hates standards of any kind.
    • It is high time someone kicked back at our new Establishment masters.
    • A whole generation of anti-Establishment activists now works in run-of-the-mill Establishment jobs.
    • His record as governor is that of a typical, establishment politician.
    • But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
    • Establishment politicians don't quite seem to grasp the changes that are sweeping through the country.
    • Instead, they attacked the Establishment, from all sides.
    • To be sure, no one has ever proved that the government has mined the central database to single out anyone for criticizing the Establishment.
    • 1968 was a tumultuous year, not only within the film industry but throughout the world, as social protests and political movements shook the Establishment.
    • An establishment figure, he has all the airs and graces of his social position.
    • Establishment figures with titles can talk nonsense and we'll still believe them.
    • Steve Earle has never really been a member of the Establishment, either socially or professionally.
    • It makes no difference, which gets elected, they are fundamentally the same and their purpose is to protect the Establishment and capitalism.
    • Beginning in the 1950s, David was to claim a place among the postwar Establishment that ran America and much of the world.
    • Yet, in many ways, those who lead openly far right parties, even if they are highly articulate, are not the most dangerous for the current British Establishment.
    Synonyms
    the powers that be, the authorities, the system, the ruling class, the regime, bureaucracy, officialdom
    the status quo, the prevailing political/social order
    informal Big Brother
    archaic the regimen
    1. 3.1with adjective or noun modifier An influential group within a specified profession or area of activity.
      rumblings of discontent among the medical establishment
      Example sentencesExamples
      • My aim is to open the political Establishment's eyes and convince them of the need for fundamental reform.
      • He rejected the proposals as an ultimatum imposed by the British military establishment.
      • In the last months, the entire political establishment has plunged into an unprecedented crisis.
      • Once, the family could count on its extensive connections within the Turkish political Establishment.
      • The entire Democratic political establishment has abandoned him.
      • Even the political Establishment is starting to understand that.
      • There's more trouble tonight for the embattled Canberra defence intelligence establishment.
      • This whole episode really does display the timidity of the mainstream media, more interested in striking deals with the political Establishment rather than interrogating and attacking it.
      • The attitude of Honduran Americans in general to the American medical establishment is one of suspicion.
      • This sort of history teaching has long been out of fashion among our post-modernist educational establishment.
      • The political and bureaucratic Establishment that has so consistently mis-analysed the process of European integration has a related vision.
      • But the political Establishment are not about to take the blame for the mess - certainly not with elections looming.
      • Charles Wood's script, which uses a stylised form of period dialogue, offers a waspish satire of the Victorian military Establishment.
      • He was a lukewarm supporter of the war, a voice of the old-line Republican foreign policy establishment.
      • The entire political and media establishment agrees on the goal of the war.
      • When did the medical establishment get behind this approach?
  • 4The ecclesiastical system organized by law.

    1. 4.1 The Church of England or of Scotland.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If one out of ten English parishes were unattended to by ministers of the Establishment, nine out of ten souls in the islands were not served at all by its clergy.
 
 

Definition of establishment in US English:

establishment

nounəˈstabliSHməntəˈstæblɪʃmənt
  • 1The action of establishing something or being established.

    the establishment of a scholarship renews that personal interest of donors in students
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Do you support the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    • Bush also proposed the establishment of a democracy fund within the U.N. in an effort to spread democracy and stability.
    • The Council recommended the establishment of an independent tribunal, plus further rights of appeal.
    • Other key pledges include the establishment of crime prevention funds for various neighbourhoods.
    • Preventing the establishment of a state religion is quite clearly a permissible goal under Locke.
    • Cosgrove thanked the previous committee for their work and strongly recommended the establishment of a new committee.
    • He advocated the immediate establishment of an ad hoc reform committee.
    • Last week councils welcomed the establishment of the commission.
    • On 17 August 1945 they heard a radio message from Jakarta announcing the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia.
    • The party also opposes the establishment of a separate Tamil state and the various devolution packages.
    • Wahid proposed the establishment of an independent monitoring commission to work toward peace, but was ousted in July 2001.
    • China is advocating the establishment of a free-trade zone encompassing China and ASEAN.
    • Does your party support the establishment of a criminal tribunal to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity in East Timor?
    • In 1917 the British issued the Balfour Declaration, which advocated the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
    • The plan proposes the establishment of a new village centre at The Quay.
    Synonyms
    setting up, start, getting going, initiation, institution, formation, founding, foundation, inception, creation, inauguration, organization, building, construction, installation
    1. 1.1archaic A marriage.
  • 2A business organization, public institution, or household.

    hotels or catering establishments
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's very nice that your establishment requires their staff to dress up for Halloween.
    • The waiters and staff of the establishment were clearly not amused.
    • Product mix and how a retail establishment looks play huge roles in attracting customers.
    • There are more than 1.1 million retail establishments across the country, an average of one every three square miles.
    Synonyms
    business, place of business, premises, firm, company, concern, enterprise, venture, organization, operation, undertaking, industry
    institution, place, premises, foundation, institute
  • 3usually the EstablishmentA group in a society exercising power and influence over matters of policy or taste, and seen as resisting change.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Establishment politicians don't quite seem to grasp the changes that are sweeping through the country.
    • To be sure, no one has ever proved that the government has mined the central database to single out anyone for criticizing the Establishment.
    • Steve Earle has never really been a member of the Establishment, either socially or professionally.
    • It makes no difference, which gets elected, they are fundamentally the same and their purpose is to protect the Establishment and capitalism.
    • Instead, they attacked the Establishment, from all sides.
    • His record as governor is that of a typical, establishment politician.
    • An establishment figure, he has all the airs and graces of his social position.
    • It is high time someone kicked back at our new Establishment masters.
    • Beginning in the 1950s, David was to claim a place among the postwar Establishment that ran America and much of the world.
    • A whole generation of anti-Establishment activists now works in run-of-the-mill Establishment jobs.
    • But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
    • Yet, in many ways, those who lead openly far right parties, even if they are highly articulate, are not the most dangerous for the current British Establishment.
    • 1968 was a tumultuous year, not only within the film industry but throughout the world, as social protests and political movements shook the Establishment.
    • Establishment figures with titles can talk nonsense and we'll still believe them.
    • But the new British Establishment hates standards of any kind.
    Synonyms
    the powers that be, the authorities, the system, the ruling class, the regime, bureaucracy, officialdom
    1. 3.1with adjective or noun modifier An influential group within a specified profession or area of activity.
      rumblings of discontent among the medical establishment
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the last months, the entire political establishment has plunged into an unprecedented crisis.
      • This sort of history teaching has long been out of fashion among our post-modernist educational establishment.
      • There's more trouble tonight for the embattled Canberra defence intelligence establishment.
      • When did the medical establishment get behind this approach?
      • Once, the family could count on its extensive connections within the Turkish political Establishment.
      • The entire political and media establishment agrees on the goal of the war.
      • My aim is to open the political Establishment's eyes and convince them of the need for fundamental reform.
      • Charles Wood's script, which uses a stylised form of period dialogue, offers a waspish satire of the Victorian military Establishment.
      • The entire Democratic political establishment has abandoned him.
      • He was a lukewarm supporter of the war, a voice of the old-line Republican foreign policy establishment.
      • But the political Establishment are not about to take the blame for the mess - certainly not with elections looming.
      • Even the political Establishment is starting to understand that.
      • He rejected the proposals as an ultimatum imposed by the British military establishment.
      • The attitude of Honduran Americans in general to the American medical establishment is one of suspicion.
      • The political and bureaucratic Establishment that has so consistently mis-analysed the process of European integration has a related vision.
      • This whole episode really does display the timidity of the mainstream media, more interested in striking deals with the political Establishment rather than interrogating and attacking it.
  • 4the Establishment" or "the Church EstablishmentThe ecclesiastical system organized by law.

    1. 4.1 The Church of England or of Scotland.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If one out of ten English parishes were unattended to by ministers of the Establishment, nine out of ten souls in the islands were not served at all by its clergy.
 
 
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