establishment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: es=tab=lish=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

establishment, n. [Cf. OF. establissement, F. établissement.].

•  The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is established;  [1913 Webster]

  "Exposing the shabby parts of the establishment."  [1913 Webster]

Establishment of the port (Hydrography), a datum on which the tides are computed at the given port, obtained by observation, viz., the interval between the moon's passage over the meridian and the time of high water at the port, on the days of new and full moon.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

establishment, n.
1 the act or an instance of establishing; the process of being established.
2 a a business organization or public institution. b a place of business. c a residence.
3 a the staff or equipment of an organization. b a household.
4 any organized body permanently maintained for a purpose.
5 a Church system organized by law.
6 (the Establishment) a the group in a society exercising authority or influence, and seen as resisting change. b any influential or controlling group (the literary Establishment).

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

ROGET THESAURUS

establishment

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.