Establish (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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verb (used with object)
  1. to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  2. to install or settle in a position, place, business, etc.: to establish one's child in business.
  3. to show to be valid or true; prove: to establish the facts of the matter.
  4. to cause to be accepted or recognized: to establish a custom; She established herself as a leading surgeon.
  5. to bring about permanently: to establish order.
  6. to enact, appoint, or ordain for permanence, as a law; fix unalterably.
  7. to make (a church) a national or state institution.
  8. to obtain control of (a suit) so that one can win all the subsequent tricks in it.
verb (usually tr)
  1. to make secure or permanent in a certain place, condition, job, etc
  2. to create or set up (an organization, etc) on or as if on a permanent basis
  3. to prove correct or free from doubt; validate
  4. to cause (a principle, theory, etc) to be widely or permanently accepted
  5. to give (a Church) the status of a national institution
  6. (of a person) to become recognized and accepted
  7. (in works of imagination) to cause (a character, place, etc) to be credible and recognized
  8. to make winners of (the remaining cards of a suit) by forcing out opponents' top cards
  9. (also intr) botany
    • to cause (a plant) to grow or (of a plant) to grow in a new place
    • to become or cause to become a sapling or adult plant from a seedling
Establish (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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