Definitions for Establishment

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Establishment es·tab·lish·ment

Spelling: [ih-stab-lish-muh nt]

IPA: /ɪˈstæb lɪʃ mənt/

Establishment is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1937 anagrams from letters in Establishment (abeehilmnsstt).

Definitions for Establishment

noun

1. the act or an instance of establishing.
2. the state or fact of being established.
3. something established; a constituted order or system.
4. (often initial capital letter) the existing power structure in society; the dominant groups in society and their customs or institutions; institutional authority (usually preceded by the):
5. (often initial capital letter) the dominant group in a field of endeavor, organization, etc. (usually preceded by the):
6. a household; place of residence including its furnishings, grounds, etc.
7. a place of business together with its employees, merchandise, equipment, etc.
8. a permanent civil, military, or other force or organization.
9. an institution, as a school, hospital, etc.
10. the recognition by a state of a church as the state church.
11. the church so recognized, especially the Church of England.
12. Archaic. a fixed or settled income.

Origin of Establishment

1475-85; 1920-25 for def 4; establish + -ment

Examples for Establishment

Two factors made Hiram Revels especially interesting to the Washington establishment.

There was no such person connected with their establishment.

They would not, for example, supersede federal law regarding the establishment Clause in the First Amendment.

Her establishment was not only diminished, but her servants reduced to half-pay.

Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

Before his writing days, London used the Oakland establishment to conduct his studies.

We should encourage the establishment of American steamship lines.

Ironically, the play deals with the ‘management’ of information by the establishment.

But there, as well as in the House, the Irish establishment was doomed.

Mrs. Hallam was waiting and watching for some one to enter or to leave that establishment.