old-established

adjective

1. established for a long time

Example Sentences

Several hundred trade unionists at the old-established Berlin engineering works, Bergmann-Borsig, have called on the country’s trade union leader, Mr Harry Tisch, to open a dialogue on changes they say are ‘urgently necessary’ in all areas of society.

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Every day an average of 2,000 people are crossing into Uganda from the old-established states of Western, Central and Eastern Equatoria in the south of the country.

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The old-established shops of the town centre began to suffer.

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Also, as we’ll see, corporations have learned how to supercharge old-established intoxicants by popularising new patterns of consuming them.

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Being unaffiliated is not the same as being atheist or agnostic, but it does suggest a waning of evangelical institutional authority, just as traditional authority in the old-established churches began crumbling several decades ago.

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