Thesaurus: establish

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1. a. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
2. a. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
3. a. To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
4. a. To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
5. a. To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
6. v. set up or found
7. v. set up or lay the groundwork for
8. v. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
9. v. institute, enact, or establish
10. v. bring about
11. v. build or establish something abstract
12. v. use as a basis for; found on