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established
[ ih-stab-lisht ]
adjective
- 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.
- 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.
- proven valid or true:
Knowledge about the venom of the spider that bit her is sparse, and there is no established treatment for it.
- 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.
- firm or settled in habit or condition:
Her established dislike of poetry meant she rarely received it for review.
- brought about, appointed, enacted, or ordained:
Requirements include being covered by federally established health insurance, such as Medicare or Medicaid.
verb
- 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
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Example Sentences
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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