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established

[ ih-stab-lisht ]

adjective

  1. founded, built, or brought into existence:

    The organization is getting ready to announce the first recipient of a newly established award recognizing outstanding service to the community.

  2. settled or installed relatively permanently in a position, place, business, etc.:

    The resort is a long established vacation destination with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality personal service to their guests.

  3. proven valid or true:

    Knowledge about the venom of the spider that bit her is sparse, and there is no established treatment for it.

  4. accepted or recognized:

    More recent research, however, contradicts the established narrative.

    Experimental psychology is an established field with a long history of research involving humans.

  5. firm or settled in habit or condition:

    Her established dislike of poetry meant she rarely received it for review.

  6. brought about, appointed, enacted, or ordained:

    Requirements include being covered by federally established health insurance, such as Medicare or Medicaid.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of establish.

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Other Words From

  • qua·si-es·tab·lished adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of established1

First recorded in 1350–1400; establish ( def ) + -ed 2( def ) for the adjective senses; establish ( def ) + -ed 1( def ) for the verb sense

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Example Sentences

“Providing scooter riders with special legal standards is premature until these regulations have been established and fully vetted,” the group said.

Whereas some energy stocks could do really well from here on ESG measures because they’ve established carbon neutrality goals.

From Fortune

Informed of the review’s results, Justin Bonus, a lawyer for Cruz, said he remained confident he could establish Simpson was impaired when she denied his client’s motion to vacate his conviction.

“The Federal Reserve would prefer that the full suite of emergency facilities established during the coronavirus pandemic continue to serve their important role as a backstop for our still-strained and vulnerable economy,” the central bank said.

The Arlington County Board this week adopted recommendations for establishing restorative justice practices in the county's schools, legal system and through community outreach programs, officials said in a statement.

Services like Airbnb, Yelp, and yes, Uber are disrupting long-established industries, from taxis to hotels.

In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.

Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.

To reclaim it, he had to move beyond established conventions about how a literary career should be conducted.

But she was less comfortable with it before she was an established name in fashion.

Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.

Yet without a large amount of their roots these Ferns can never be satisfactorily established.

The war credit bank of Greater Berlin, for instance, was established with a capital of 18 millions of marks, of which 25 per cent.

His Characters, in imitation of Theophrastus, is a work of established excellence, and descriptive of the manners of that age.

"Say yes quickly," he cried, and the strength of his will and passion vibrated to her through the medium he had established.

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