establishment
/ɪˈstablɪʃm(ə)nt
/ /ɛˈstablɪʃm(ə)nt/noun
1 [mass noun] The action of establishing something or being established: the establishment of an independent government...
- Wahid proposed the establishment of an independent monitoring commission to work toward peace, but was ousted in July 2001.
- The Council recommended the establishment of an independent tribunal, plus further rights of appeal.
- Preventing the establishment of a state religion is quite clearly a permissible goal under Locke.
Synonyms
setting up, start, getting going, initiation, institution, formation, founding, foundation, inception, creation, inauguration, organization, building, construction, installation
1.1 [count noun] archaic 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...
- There are more than 1.1 million retail establishments across the country, an average of one every three square miles.
- Product mix and how a retail establishment looks play huge roles in attracting customers.
- It's very nice that your establishment requires their staff to dress up for Halloween.
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
3 (usually the Establishment) A 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...
- But the new British Establishment hates standards of any kind.
- 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.
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
3.1 [with adjective or noun modifier] An influential group within a specified profession or area of activity: rumblings of discontent among the medical establishment...
- Once, the family could count on its extensive connections within the Turkish political Establishment.
- This sort of history teaching has long been out of fashion among our post-modernist educational establishment.
- When did the medical establishment get behind this approach?
4 (the Establishment or the Church Establishment) The ecclesiastical system organized by law.
4.1The Church of England or of Scotland.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.