| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization; creation |
Synonyms: |
enactment, endowment, formation, formulation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, setting up |
| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, institution |
Synonyms: |
abode, building, company, concern, corporation, enterprise, factory, firm, foundation, house, institute, office, organization, outfit, plant, quarters, residence, setup, structure, system, workplace |
| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ruling class; bureaucracy |
Synonyms: |
Old Guard, authority, city hall, conservatives, diehards, established order, powers that be, the system, them |
Antonyms: |
proletariat |
| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expert, animate or inanimate |
Synonyms: |
CEO, arbiter, aristocrat, bible, big cheese, big shot, big wig, boss, brains, brass, buff*, city hall, connoisseur, czar, egghead, establishment*, exec, executive, expert, feds, front office, governor, guru, ivory dome, judge, kingfish, kingpin, law*, power elite, pro, professional, professor, pundit, scholar, specialist, textbook, top brass, top dog, top hand, upstairs, veteran, virtuoso, whiz, wizard |
| Main Entry: | bureaucracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system which controls organization |
Synonyms: |
administration, authority, beadledom, city hall, civil service, directorate, government, management, ministry, officialdom, officials, powers that be, red tape, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | company, enterprise |
Synonyms: |
Mom and Pop, cartel, concern, corporation, establishment, factory, firm, fly-by-night operation, house, institution, market, megacorp, mill, monopoly, organization, outfit, partnership, setup, shoestring operation, shop, store, syndicate, trust, venture |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | colonization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | settlement of area |
Synonyms: |
clearing, establishment, expanding, expansion, founding, immigration, migration, opening up, peopling, pioneering, populating, settlement, settling, squatting, transplanting |
| Main Entry: | company |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business concern |
Synonyms: |
association, business, concern, corporation, enterprise, establishment, firm, house, megacorp, multinational, outfit, partnership, syndicate |
| Main Entry: | concern |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, responsibility |
Synonyms: |
affair, burden, care, charge, company, corporation, deportment, entanglement, enterprise, establishment, field, firm, house, interest, involvement, job, jungle*, matter, megacorp, mission, multinational, occupation, organization, outfit, shooting match, task, thing, transaction, worry, zoo |