installverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈstɔːl/us/ɪnˈstɑːl/install verb [ T ] (READY TO USE)
B1 to put furniture, a machine, or a piece of equipment into position and make it ready to use:
The plumber is coming tomorrow to install the new washing machine.
B1 specialized computing to put a computer program onto a computer so that the computer can use it:
Andrew, can you help me install this software?
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- We will install your washing machine free of charge/for free.
- They gave us a long spiel about why we needed to install double glazing in our house.
- It would cause a tremendous upheaval to install a different computer system.
- Local residents are asking for speed humps to be installed in their street.
- When we installed the central heating, we put a radiator in every room.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Placing and positioning an object
- -based
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- fit
- manoeuvre
- perch
- pop
- position
- sandwich sb/sth between sb/sth
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- set sth down
- shelve
- shove
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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Operating computers
install verb [ T ] (GIVE JOB)
to put someone in an important job or position:
She has installed a couple of young academics as her advisers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Promoting staff
- aggrandizement
- ascend
- career-limiting
- demote
- depute
- elevation
- exalt
- fast track
- free transfer
- handover
- in the wilderness idiom
- promotion
- rank
- second 1
- subordination
- time-scale promotion
- transfer
- upgradation
- upshifter
- vault
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Applying for a job
install verb [ T ] (PLACE)
install sb/yourself in/at somewhere UK
to put someone/yourself in a comfortable position where you want to stay:
He seems to have installed himself in your spare room for good!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Promoting staff
- aggrandizement
- ascend
- career-limiting
- demote
- depute
- elevation
- exalt
- fast track
- free transfer
- handover
- in the wilderness idiom
- promotion
- rank
- second 1
- subordination
- time-scale promotion
- transfer
- upgradation
- upshifter
- vault
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