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RELATED WORDS : business establishment communications security establishment mercantile establishment

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun establishment has 7 senses

• establishment(n = noun.act) constitution, formation, organisation, organization - the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club"
is a kind of beginning, commencement, start
has particulars: unionisation, unionization, collectivisation, collectivization, communisation, communization, federation, colonisation, colonization, settlement
Derived forms verb establish₂, verb establish₁

• establishment(n = noun.group) institution - an organization founded and united for a specific purpose; Array
is a kind of organisation, organization
has particulars: medical institution, financial institution, financial organisation, financial organization, issuer, charity, company, faith, organized religion, religion, vicariate, vicarship, educational institution, academy, honorary society

• establishment(n = noun.group) administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
is a kind of body
is a part of authorities, government, regime
has particulars: curia, top brass, executive, bench, judiciary, county council, government officials, officialdom, management
has parts: hierarchy, pecking order, power structure

• establishment(n = noun.artifact) Array - a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence; Array
has particulars: academy, institution, perfumery, phrontistery, business establishment, place of business, poorhouse, school system, university
is a kind of construction, structure

• establishment(n = noun.group) Array - any large organization; Array
is a kind of organisation, organization

• establishment(n = noun.process) ecesis - (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat; Array
is a kind of action, activity, natural action, natural process

• establishment(n = noun.cognition) validation - the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof; Array
is a kind of cogent evidence, proof
Derived form verb establish₃

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THESAURUS

establishment

A, Old Guard, absolute indication, agency, alpha, anchorage, animal kingdom, architecture, aristocracy, ascertainment, assurance, atelier, barbershop, barons, beauty parlor, beauty shop, beginning, bench, blast-off, boutique, building, burden of proof, business, butcher shop, certification, chain of being, chain store, check, checking, class structure, co-op, collation, colonization, commencement, company, concern, concession, conclusive evidence, confirmation, constitution, construct, construction, cooperative, corporation, countinghouse, country store, cream, creation, cutting edge, damning evidence, dawn, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, demonstration, department store, desk, determination, dime store, discount house, discount store, domain, edge, edifice, effectuation, elite, embedment, emporium, ensuring, enterprise, entrenchment, erection, fabric, facility, firm, five-and-ten, fixation, fixedness, fixity, fixture, flying start, formation, foundation, founding, fresh start, general store, hierarchy, house, implantation, inauguration, inception, incontrovertible evidence, indisputable evidence, infixion, initiation, installation, installment, institute, institution, investiture, inveteracy, ironclad proof, jump-off, kick-off, kingdom, leading edge, lodgment, loft, lords of creation, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, materialization, mineral kingdom, mooring, natural hierarchy, new departure, nobility, office, oncoming, onset, onus, onus probandi, opening, organization, origin, origination, outbreak, outfit, outset, overlapping, packaged house, parlor, pecking order, peopling, pile, plantation, population, post, power elite, power structure, prefab, prefabrication, proof, pyramid, realization, realm, reassurance, reassurement, retail store, ruling circles, ruling class, running start, salon, send-off, setting in motion, setting-up, settlement, settling, shop, skyscraper, square one, stabilization, start, start-off, starting point, store, structure, studio, substantiation, supermarket, superstructure, sure sign, sweatshop, take-off, the Church, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the best, the best people, the brass, the government, the power structure, top people, tower, trading post, unmistakable sign, upper class, upper crust, validation, variety shop, variety store, vegetable kingdom, verification, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

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Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, 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, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.

Mart

N 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, shop, emporium, establishment, store, department store, general store, five and ten, variety store, co-op, finding store, grindery warehouse, 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, 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, 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, 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, market-overt, real-estate broker, vending machine.

Stability

N stability, immutability, unchangeability 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, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.

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