establish
/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/ verb A2- To make stable or firm; to confirm.
- To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
- To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
- To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate. · to establish a fact· to establish a pattern
He/she/it establishes · Past established · Past participle established · -ing form establishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- establish
- He/she/it
- establishes
- Past
- established
- Past participle
- established
- -ing form
- establishing
From the library
But this gentleman has assured me that he will buy me out as soon as we have established our claim.
"I prefer to establish personal touch with those with whom I do business.
Even when you knew me first, at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in ‘A Study in Scarlet,’ I had already established a considerable, though not a very lucrative, connection.
He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.
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