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established

/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃt/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
  2. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
  3. To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
  4. To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
  5. Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
  6. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
  7. (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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