ESTABLISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does establishment mean? 

• ESTABLISHMENT (noun)
  The noun ESTABLISHMENT has 7 senses:

1. the act of forming or establishing something

2. an organization founded and united for a specific purpose

3. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

4. a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence

5. any large organization

6. (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat

7. the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

  Familiarity information: ESTABLISHMENT used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTABLISHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of forming or establishing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

constitution; establishment; formation; organisation; organization

Context example:

he still remembers the organization of the club

Hypernyms ("establishment" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "establishment"):

collectivisation; collectivization (the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism)

communisation; communization (the organization of a nation of the basis of communism)

federation (the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs)

colonisation; colonization; settlement (the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies)

unionisation; unionization (act of forming labor unions)

Derivation:

establish (set up or lay the groundwork for)

establish (set up or found)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An organization founded and united for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

establishment; institution

Hypernyms ("establishment" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "establishment"):

financial institution; financial organisation; financial organization (an institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assets)

academy; honorary society (an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature)

educational institution (an institution dedicated to education)

vicariate; vicarship (the religious institution under the authority of a vicar)

faith; organized religion; religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)

company (an institution created to conduct business)

charity (an institution set up to provide help to the needy)

issuer (an institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.))

medical institution (an institution created for the practice of medicine)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization

Context example:

he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment

Hypernyms ("establishment" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (parts of "establishment"):

hierarchy; pecking order; power structure (the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body)

Meronyms (members of "establishment"):

advisory board; planning board (a board appointed to advise the chief administrator)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "establishment"):

Curia ((Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church)

top brass (the most important persons in a governing body)

executive (persons who administer the law)

bench; judiciary (persons who administer justice)

county council (the elected governing body of a county)

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

management (those in charge of running a business)

Holonyms ("establishment" is a part of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("establishment" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Domain category:

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "establishment"):

business establishment; place of business (an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered)

wine maker; winery (an establishment where wine is made)

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

school system (establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school)

poorhouse (an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless)

phrontistery (an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities))

perfumery (an establishment where perfumes are made)

institution (an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated)

academy (a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Any large organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("establishment" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Sense 6

Meaning:

(ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

ecesis; establishment

Hypernyms ("establishment" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Domain category:

bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

establishment; validation

Hypernyms ("establishment" is a kind of...):

cogent evidence; proof (any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something)

Derivation:

establish (establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment)

 Context examples 

The establishment of viable, functional grafted tissue within the body of a host.

(Engraftment, NCI Thesaurus)

The identifiable and quantifiable things which contribute to the establishment and transmission of disease.

(Epidemiological Factors, NCI Thesaurus)

At last, one day, I meet the Misses Nettingalls' establishment out walking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"But may I inquire how you intend to support the establishment? If all the pupils are little ragamuffins, I'm afraid your crop won't be profitable in a worldly sense, Mrs. Bhaer."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A unique numeric code assigned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prescription drugs and insulin products manufactured, prepared, processed, or propagated by registered establishments for commercial distribution.

(FDA National Drug Code, NCI Thesaurus)

This soluble, nuclear protein may play a role in repression of transcription by RNA polymerase II, and in establishment of pericentric heterochromatin domains.

(Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase SUV420H1, NCI Thesaurus)

An establishment that provides palliative and supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families via physical, psychological, social and other forms of care.

(Hospice, NCI Thesaurus)

Because he is treasurer and manager of the establishment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Establishment of infection depends on various parasite molecules such as cruzipain, oligopeptidase B, and trans-sialidase that activate Ca2+ signaling.

(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The spread of the cancer to and establishment in the skin.

(Carcinoma Metastatic to the Skin, NCI Thesaurus)