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establishment
noun
1 establishment
The act of forming or establishing something:
— It was the establishment of his reputation.
synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization.
Roget 150:
stability;
immutability
etc.
adj.;
unchangeability,
etc.
adj.;
unchangeableness†;
constancy;
stable equilibrium,
immobility,
soundness,
vitality,
stabiliment†,
stiffness,
ankylosis†,
solidity,
aplomb.
establishment,
fixture;
rock,
pillar,
tower,
foundation,
leopard's spots,
Ethiopia's skin.
permanence
etc.
141;
obstinacy
etc.
606.
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Roget 799:
mart;
market,
marketplace;
fair,
bazaar,
staple,
exchange,
change,
bourse,
hall,
guildhall;
tollbooth,
customhouse;
Tattersall's.
stall,
booth,
stand,
newsstand;
cart,
wagon.
wharf;
office,
chambers,
countinghouse,
bureau;
counter,
compter [Fr.].
shop,
emporium,
establishment;
store
etc.
636;
department store,
general store,
five and ten,
variety store,
co-op,
finding store [U.S.],
grindery warehouse†.
[food stores: list]
grocery,
supermarket,
candy store,
sweet shop,
confectionery,
bakery,
greengrocer,
delicatessen,
bakeshop,
butcher shop,
fish store,
farmers' market,
mom and pop store,
dairy,
health food store.
[specialized stores: list]
tobacco shop,
tobacco store,
tobacconists,
cigar store,
hardware store,
jewelry shop,
bookstore,
liquor store,
gun shop,
rod and reel shop,
furniture store,
drugstore,
chemist's [Brit.],
florist,
flower shop,
shoe store,
stationer,
stationer's,
electronics shop,
telephone store,
music store,
record shop,
fur store,
sporting goods store,
video store,
video rental store;
lumber store,
lumber yard,
home improvements store,
home improvement center;
gas station,
auto repair shop,
auto dealer,
used car dealer.
mall,
suburban mall,
commons,
pedestrian mall;
shopping street.
surplus store,
army-navy surplus store.
[locations where used articles are sold]
auction;
flea market;
yard sale,
garage sale;
pawn shop;
antiques store;
second-hand store,
second time around shop,
thrift shop.
warehouse,
wareroom†;
depot,
interposit†,
entrepot [Fr.].
market-overt.
real-estate broker.
vending machine.
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Roget 161:
production,
creation,
construction,
formation,
fabrication,
manufacture;
building,
architecture,
erection,
edification;
coinage;
diaster†;
organization;
nisus formativus [Lat.];
putting together
etc.
v.;
establishment;
workmanship,
performance;
achievement
etc.
(completion)
729.
flowering,
fructification;
inflorescence.
bringing forth
etc.
v.;
parturition,
birth,
birth-throe,
childbirth,
delivery,
confinement,
accouchement,
travail,
labor,
midwifery,
obstetrics;
geniture†;
gestation
etc.
(maturation)
673;
assimilation;
evolution,
development,
growth;
entelechy [Phil.];
fertilization,
gemination,
germination,
heterogamy [Biol.],
genesis,
generation,
epigenesis†,
procreation,
progeneration†,
propagation;
fecundation,
impregnation;
albumen
etc.
357.
spontaneous generation;
archegenesis†,
archebiosis†;
biogenesis,
abiogenesis†,
digenesis†,
dysmerogenesis†,
eumerogenesis†,
heterogenesis†,
oogenesis,
merogenesis†,
metogenesis†,
monogenesis†,
parthenogenesis,
homogenesis†,
xenogenesis1†;
authorship,
publication;
works,
opus,
oeuvre.
biogeny†,
dissogeny†,
xenogeny†;
tocogony†,
vacuolization.
edifice,
building,
structure,
fabric,
erection,
pile,
tower,
flower,
fruit.
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Roget 184:
location,
localization;
lodgment;
deposition,
reposition;
stowage,
package;
collocation;
packing,
lading;
establishment,
settlement,
installation;
fixation;
insertion
etc.
300.
habitat,
environment,
surroundings
(situation)
183;
circumjacence
etc.
227†.
anchorage,
mooring,
encampment.
plantation,
colony,
settlement,
cantonment;
colonization,
domestication,
situation;
habitation
etc.
(abode)
189;
cohabitation;
a local habitation and a name"
[Midsummer Night's Dream];
endenization†,
naturalization.
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Dutch: bestel, installatie, organisatie, vestiging
Polish: utworzenie
2 establishment
An organization founded and united for a specific purpose.
synonym: institution.
Roget 712:
party,
faction,
side,
denomination,
communion,
set,
crew,
band.
horde,
posse,
phalanx;
family,
clan,
etc.
166;
team;
tong.
council
etc.
696.
community,
body,
fellowship,
sodality,
solidarity;
confraternity;
familistere†,
familistery†;
brotherhood,
sisterhood.
knot,
gang,
clique,
ring,
circle,
group,
crowd,
in-crowd;
coterie,
club,
casino†;
machine;
Tammany,
Tammany Hall [U.S.].
corporation,
corporate body,
guild;
establishment,
company;
copartnership†,
partnership;
firm,
house;
joint concern,
joint-stock company;
cahoot,
combine [U.S.],
trust.
society,
association;
institute,
institution;
union;
trades union;
league,
syndicate,
alliance,
Verein [G.],
Bund [G.],
Zollverein [G.],
combination;
Turnverein [G.];
league offensive and defensive,
alliance offensive and defensive;
coalition;
federation;
confederation,
confederacy;
junto,
cabal,
camarilla†,
camorra†,
brigue†;
freemasonry;
party spirit
etc.
(cooperation)
709.
Confederates,
Conservatives,
Democrats,
Federalists,
Federals,
Freemason,
Knight Templar;
Kuklux,
Kuklux Klan,
KKK;
Liberals,
Luddites,
Republicans,
Socialists,
Tories,
Whigs
&c..
staff;
dramatis personae [Lat.].
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Dutch: instelling, instituut
Polish: instytucja
3 establishment
4 establishment
A public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence.
Dutch: etablissement
Polish: siedziba
5 establishment
6 establishment
ecology The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
synonym: ecesis.
7 establishment
The cognitive process of establishing a valid proof.
synonym: validation.
Polish: walidacja
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