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to establish a framework

to establish a framework

4.4
To create a basic plan that guides later work
  • phrasal verb
  • /ɪˈstæblɪʃ ə ˈfreɪmˌwɜrk/
  • Formal
translation icon : establecer un marco
  • Social scientists have established a framework for evaluating characteristics of the user.
  • establish a framework for development
  • establish a framework for analyzing

Examples

  • This Action Plan is intended to establish a framework to achieve sustainable fisheries in Canada.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The COP established "a framework for reporting on the possible global benefits, the national impacts," and any "technical difficulties encountered."

    Academic text (1998)

  • As the stronger partner, Washington must take the initiative to set a new direction and establish a framework that could bring the two sides together.

    Academic text (2003)

  • A need to establish a framework for conducting teacher education research was the impetus behind the study described in this article.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The foundation is establishing a framework for capacity building to help African governments and international donors focus their priorities for maximum effectiveness.

    Academic text (1992)

  • A rural development regulation establishes a framework for EC support of programs to encourage sustainable rural development.

    Academic text (2000)

  • In doing so, gatekeeping helped to establish a framework for understanding race and racial categories and reflected, reinforced, and reproduced the existing racial hierarchy in the country.

    Academic text (2002)

  • In challenging the party's old paternalistic claims, they established a framework for negotiations more closely approximating the civic principles of electoral competition in liberal democracies.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Consequently, the model establishes a framework for furthering a partnership between educators and parents within the school community and for furthering school-based linkages to health and human services.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The committee aims to establish a framework that outlines the key principles for the new policy.

Synonyms

to lay the foundation
vsto establish a framework
34 3.9

To make things ready so something can succeed

create a structured system that serves as the organised base for later work

Antonyms

to dismantle
64 4.2

Take something apart into separate pieces

to disorganize
  • US
4 4.5

To make something lose its order or structure

How Foundational

to establish a framework
  • Formal
4.4
to outline
148 3.3
to sketch
45 3.0

Surface Forms

establish a framework infinitive
established a framework past
established a framework past participle
establishing a framework present participle
establishes a framework third person singular

Morphology

establish + a + framework

The meaning 'to create a basic structure' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'establish' (to set up or found) with 'framework' (a structure or system). This is a common, literal academic/business collocation with clear cross-linguistic equivalents, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

The phrase establish a framework comes from the image of building a house: to establish is to set up and a framework is the wooden frame that holds the walls and roof. So to establish a framework means 'to create a basic structure' that will support later work.