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| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization; creation |
| Synonyms: | enactment, endowment, formation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, formulation, 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
at anchor, domesticated, embosomed, ensconced, imbedded, moored, placed, posited, rooted, situate, unremoved, vested in
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| Main Entry: | bureaucracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system which controls organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, city hall*, government, management, ministry, red tape*, beadledom, civil service, directorate, officialdom, officials, powers that be, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | colonization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | settlement of area |
| Synonyms: | clearing, establishment, expansion, founding, migration, settlement, expanding, immigration, opening up, peopling, pioneering, populating, settling, squatting, transplanting |
| Main Entry: | dwelling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | home |
| Synonyms: | abode, castle, den, domicile, dump*, establishment, habitat, habitation, haunt, house, lodging, pad, quarters, residence, commorancy, digs, hole in the wall, residency |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high-class persons |
| Synonyms: | aristocracy, beautiful people*, best, blue blood, celebrity, choice, cream, crowd, elect, establishment, fast lane*, fat*, flower, gentility, gentry, high society*, nobility, pride, prime, prize, quality, select, society, top, upper class, carriage trade, country club set, crème de la crème, glitterati, in-crowd, jet-set, main line, old money, optimacy, upper crust |
| Antonyms: | lower class, ordinary, commonality, low-life |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | employer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, business who hires |
| Synonyms: | big shot*, boss, businessperson, capitalist, chief, company, corporation, director, entrepreneur, establishment, executive, firm, front office, head, juice*, management, manager, manufacturer, meal ticket*, organization, outfit, overseer, owner, patron, president, proprietor, superintendent, supervisor, CEO, CO, head honcho, kingpin, slavedriver, workers big cheese |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | identification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labeling; means of labeling |
| Synonyms: | ID*, assimilation, badge, bracelet, credentials, description, establishment, papers, passport, recognition, tag, testimony, apperception, cataloging, classifying, dog tag, identity bracelet, letter of introduction, letter of recommendation, naming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | introduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something new; something that begins |
| Synonyms: | addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, establishment, foreword, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, launch, lead, opening, overture, preamble, preface, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prologue, survey, basic principles, basic text, essentials, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, hornbook, interpolation, intro, lead-in, opening remarks, pioneering, preliminaries, prolegomenon |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | premises |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grounds and buildings |
| Synonyms: | campus, establishment, fix, flat, hangout*, home, house, joint*, land, lay, layout, neck of the woods, office, pad, place, plant, property, real estate*, roof, scene, site, spot, terrace, turf, zone, bounds, digs, limits |
| Notes: | a premise is a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; premises are land and buildings together considered as a place of business |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | red tape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bureaucratic rules |
| Synonyms: | City Hall, authority, bureaucracy, city hall*, government, management, bureaucratic paperwork, official forms, official procedures, officialdom, officialism, paper shuffling, powers that be, proper channels, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | regime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leadership of organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, dynasty, establishment, government, management, pecking order*, reign, rule, system, tenure, incumbency |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resistance of some degree |
| Synonyms: | adherence, aplomb, assurance, backbone, balance, cohesion, constancy, determination, durability, endurance, establishment, firmness, maturity, permanence, perseverance, security, soundness, strength, support, dependability, immobility, immovability, resoluteness, solidity, solidness, stableness, steadfastness, steadiness, substantiality, toughness |
| Antonyms: | insecurity, instability, wavering, unsteadiness, variability |
| Main Entry: | warehouse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storage place |
| Synonyms: | barn, bin, depository, depot, establishment, repository, shed, stockpile, store, storehouse, distribution center, stash house, stockroom |
| Main Entry: | institution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization |
| Synonyms: | academy, association, asylum, business, clinic, college, company, conservatory, establishment, fixture, foundation, guild, hospital, institute, institution, school, seminar, society, system, university, orphanage, seminary |
| Main Entry: | power structure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management hierarchy |
| Synonyms: | establishment, hierarchy, stratification, class structure, corridors of power, interests, managerial hierarchy, power elite, powers that be, ruling class, status system |
| 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, mission, multinational, occupation, organization, outfit, task, thing, transaction, worry, zoo, megacorp, shooting match |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, making, origination, procreation, production, formulation, laying down, nascency, nativity, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
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