Usually means: Set up or found something.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word establish:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. establish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. establish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. establish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. establish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. establish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Establish, establish: Wordnik
  7. establish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. establish: Wiktionary
  9. establish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. establish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. establish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. establish: Dictionary.com
  13. establish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. establish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Establish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Establish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. establish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. establish: Rhymezone
  19. establish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. establish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. establish: Free Dictionary
  22. establish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. establish: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. establish: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. establish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. establish: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. establish: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Establish: Fifthchair Bridge

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.

Similar:
constitute, prove, instal, show, make, build, set up, demonstrate, institute, give, more...

Opposite:
abolish, dismantle, disband, terminate, eradicate

Types:
found, set up, more...

Phrases:
re establish, pre establish, firmly establish, to set into motion or establish, to establish a solid or secure position, more...

Colors:
    burgundy,     charcoal,     forest green,     slate gray,     midnight blue, more...


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Similar:
constitute, prove, instal, show, make, build, set up, demonstrate, institute, give, more...

Opposite:
abolish, dismantle, disband, terminate, eradicate

Types:
found, set up, more...

Phrases:
re establish, pre establish, firmly establish, to set into motion or establish, to establish a solid or secure position, establish as law, establish by statute, to establish, establish by law, more...

Colors:
    burgundy,     charcoal,     forest green,     slate gray,     midnight blue, more...



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