established
/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃt/ · verb
Meaning
- 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 establish a fact; to demonstrate.
- Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
- Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
- (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
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