establishment
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3.8
- noun
- /ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt/
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establecimiento
- The restaurant is a well-known establishment in the city for its delicious cuisine.
- food establishments
- commercial establishments
- educational establishments
Is that a specific type of establishment that exists in this world?
- Is that a specific type of establishment that exists in this world?
- So when you've listened in a crowded establishment, yeah.
- Several years ago, I was at a really nice establishment outside of Miami called Scarlets.
- I was also invited to Her Majesty's Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, right near Oxford, out of Oxford.
- I'm pretty sure it's like she has to go back to run her little like lake establishment, like a bed and breakfast.
- She, you know, spends an awful lot of money at resorts and fine dining establishments.
- I cannot stay at their establishment and.
- These were rural establishments looking for land in the centre of the city.
- But you go to America, you get in what the most British fish and chip establishment is going to be a Irish pub?
Examples
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You guys are the staff of a fine dining establishment.
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His mother, also in her late seventies, had never been inside an establishment that served liquor.
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What kind of establishment do you think this is?
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How much time do you spend in a drinking establishment?
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What's the name of your establishment?
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It's quite an establishment you've got here.
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Several years ago, I was at a really nice establishment outside of Miami called Scarlets.
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I'm afraid I can't allow you entrance into this fine establishment.
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If you make it to Rome, search out an establishment called the Padre Negro.
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Today there are 4,500 companies and establishments that supply the national petroleum sector with goods and services.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
A company or shop and the people who work there
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1.9
A company that provides professional services like lawyers or accountants
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3.9
An organization like a school, bank, or charity that serves the public
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3.5
A place where people sell things or offer services, like a shop
A shop that sells goods to people
Antonyms
Compounds
A Canadian government agency that gathers information from communications and helps protect Canada from spying and cyber attacks
A business or place of very low quality with bad service and dirty conditions
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Establishment comes from a Latin root stabilis meaning 'firm' or 'steady', like the English word stable. So an establishment is a place or business that has been set up and stands firm to serve people.