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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
established
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an established convention (=one that has been used for a long time)
▪ There are established conventions for how you should end a letter.
an established custom
▪ He had criticized some of the school’s established customs.
long established
long established traditions
securely established
▪ By that time, democracy had become securely established in Spain.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ The present Holy Trinity church was consecrated in 1845 on a site on the main road and beside an already established village.
▪ If so, the coming mergers will only reinforce an already established trend.
▪ Their destination tends to be New York, to join an already established colony of Fujianese.
▪ They are listed in the Creative Handbook but most are only interested in already established people.
▪ In fact the club has merely recruited already established players from other clubs, hence my original question.
newly
▪ Partition led to the migration of ten million people across the newly established borders.
▪ He saw little hope of achieving this by gradual measures or appeals to newly established unity.
▪ This is where the newly established Foundation for Paper Research has stepped in.
▪ Meanwhile newly established caretaker committees for each party were to start electing new leaderships and organizing national conventions.
▪ After Preston's death he received appointment as one of the regular justices of the newly established assize circuits in 1274.
▪ The newly established Legations protested and the introduction of the fast-growing eucalyptus obviated the necessity.
recently
▪ This action of the mutant protein is by contrast with the recently established tumour suppressor activity of the wild type protein.
well
▪ As for the art available, a statistical look reveals a conservative and market-wary shift toward well established names.
▪ This idea was plainly contrary to well established rules and was swiftly dismissed.
▪ To date there are few well established risk factors for dementia of the Alzheimers disease type.
▪ How can a perfectly well established institution change its name overnight and why should it?
▪ This well established course has a high success rate.
▪ Anhydrous caustic soda, hydrogen gas and phosgene, all well established product areas, are being developed to produce maximum returns.
▪ Thirteen districts used well established instruments, 33 used locally developed instruments, and 66 used a combination.
▪ There is a well established role for termination of pregnancy in certain congenital abnormalities.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ It is thought of as a requirement incumbent on citizens in virtue of the independently established authority of the state.
▪ Here again he is adopting a course of confrontation, a course of deliberate challenge to established authority.
business
▪ The address on the insurance policy was also consistent with the premises being Capricorn's established business premises.
▪ This has allowed us to concentrate on the problems of running an established business.
▪ For owners who seek advice and guidance on development of an established business. 3.
▪ The owner must have either an established business desiring to expand or a sound business plan.
▪ Although difficult in established businesses, an alternative is to re-create customer expectations rather than change the actuality.
▪ Competition from established businesses can be formidable.
church
▪ That same light revealed the corruption of the established Church.
▪ This contact made him study the issue of conformity to the established church.
▪ Persecuting Nonconformists could have a knock-on effect in a community, hitting those who were loyal to the established Church.
▪ During the plague, the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London.
▪ The established Church failed to keep up either with the growth of the population or with the changing geography of its distribution.
▪ The only result of clerical opposition was that the established Church once again forfeited its chance to control developments.
▪ He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State.
▪ Therefore, it is certainly more comfortable to remain in the security of stable established church life.
company
▪ As I said, we're an old established company, but we're forward-looking and vigorous.
▪ Will it be assets or shares in an established company or a hive-down company?
▪ Venture capitalists thus seem to be moving away from riskier start-ups and towards more established companies in buy-out situations.
fact
▪ But this is not established fact at all.
▪ It is a known and established fact that political parties do not pick up in the polls once an election is under way.
▪ Over the centuries, it then came to be regarded as established fact.
firm
▪ Well established firms are relatively few.
▪ The patron observed was an old established firm of land and estate agents.
▪ The initial research is generally a one-man job; the production is often best carried out by an established firm.
institution
▪ Discussion in this chapter will confine itself to evaluation within an established institution.
▪ He goes on to argue that the situational theory, the defence of established institutions, most closely meets these criteria.
▪ How can a perfectly well established institution change its name overnight and why should it?
▪ He was naturally nostalgic, even sentimental, and a respecter of established institutions with which lie had been connected.
market
▪ A purchaser at an established market does, therefore, obtain good title.
▪ But I am less sure whether the bigger houses, with their established markets, benefit other than in terms of public relations.
▪ No mean achievement given the established market domination by Sage.
▪ Lawyer C was new to the town and aware of both this problem and that of breaking into an established market.
▪ The company's next step is to try and boost its profile in an established market dominated by big-name players.
order
▪ Historical incidents were no more than superficial disturbances of the established order or recurring events of unchanging significance.
▪ Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order.
▪ In this conception of the social and political world, the established order is not permanently fixed.
▪ An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
▪ It may be uncomfortable for the established order, but the time may be coming for it to move over.
part
▪ It has become an established part of police operations.
▪ Her declared love of cakes has become an established part of her repertoire.
▪ It was not until the 1940s that public opinion polling became an established part of the political process.
party
▪ There was, therefore, a vote of about one-third of the Derry electorate which was being deployed against the established parties.
▪ Paradoxically, the other major beneficiary from apparent disillusion with the established parties was the far right Front national.
pattern
▪ This lack of an established pattern has been recognised.
▪ It effectively disrupted the old established patterns but prevented new and more sensible patterns developing.
▪ They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at.
practice
▪ Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change.
▪ They may consider that the exhibition of works from war booty collections should become an established practice.
▪ That would not merely be a breach of established practice but a fundamental failure of justice.
▪ In exceptional cases the courts may take the view that established practice is unsatisfactory and find negligence.
▪ This approach flies in the face of established practice.
▪ If it does it will be a conventional engineering solution based on established practice.
principle
▪ It is the duty of the judge to consider each case before him in the light of existing law and established principles.
▪ An aid to construction Next I must refer to an established principle of statutory construction which looms large on this appeal.
▪ Never quote the textbook for an established principle of law.
procedure
▪ Citizens have an obligation to obey law by virtue of the fact that it is made in accordance with established procedures.
▪ He knew that he would have to run against established procedure in order to continue now.
religion
▪ This is just another example of the ever-repeated tendency of the long established religions to produce dissentient sects.
reputation
▪ He fearlessly attacked convention, which caused problems when he pitched into established reputations.
▪ Already, Douglas Reyburn has an established reputation for innovation with their specialised yarn effects.
rule
▪ This idea was plainly contrary to well established rules and was swiftly dismissed.
▪ To act on or defy a socially established rule has effects on all who benefit or suffer by its observance.
▪ A well established rule is to create a sharp mental image of your audience.
▪ The absence of detailed case law has meant that there are no established rules to resolve conflicts.
▪ How there is rivalry, a desire to be first, but played out within established rules of conduct.
system
▪ The problem is that the prospect is unlikely given the way that the established system works.
▪ The cost of using such established systems is high, typically about £1,500 per hour to hire.
▪ The writing may be on the wall for the established system.
▪ After about a week, in a well established system, there will be nothing left.
▪ The scheme is neatly dovetailed into the established system of private practice.
▪ The gradualism of concession merely shores up the essentials of the established system by creating an illusion as to the possibilities of change.
tradition
▪ It is no longer dominated by established tradition, or established religious beliefs; it has new populations with new sets of consciousness.
▪ Export of superfluous man-power from the poorer inland farms was an established tradition by the eighteenth century.
▪ The comparative study of kinship terminologies is one of the longest established traditions in academic anthropology.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an established scientist
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although young bands can find the established people in Music Week, they are probably a waste of time.
▪ By formalising their relationship, the companies hope to provide an established platform which implements the core technology behind the Intelligent Network.
▪ His cousin John Falconar was already an established Cheapside merchant.
▪ Now we are a fully established class with 26 members on our books with Bridget Ewing at the helm.
▪ Pasture, especially natural or long established pasture, acts like a biological sponge, holding large amounts of nitrate.
▪ The local government reforms following 1888 established new authorities with a franchise almost identical with the municipal boroughs.
▪ The representatives from seventeen national parties at the Paris conference were quite plainly non-attenders in the established church of politics.
▪ They do not fit in readily with any contemporary ideology or with the manifesto of any established political party.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
established

established \established\ adj.

  1. brought about or set up or accepted; especially long and widely accepted; as, distrust of established authority; a team established as a member of a major league; enjoyed his prestige as an established writer; an established precedent; the established Church. Contrasted with unestablished. [Narrower terms: entrenched; implanted, planted, rooted; official; recognized]

  2. securely established; as, an established reputation.

    Syn: firm.

  3. settled securely and unconditionally.

    Syn: accomplished, effected.

  4. conforming with accepted standards.

  5. shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; as, the established facts in the case.

    Syn: proved.

  6. (Bot.) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants.

    Syn: naturalized.

Wiktionary
established
  1. 1 Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area. 2 (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference. v

  2. (en-past of: establish)

WordNet
established
  1. adj. brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church" [syn: constituted] [ant: unestablished]

  2. securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet" [syn: firm]

  3. settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact" [syn: accomplished, effected]

  4. shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; "the established facts in the case"

  5. conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: conventional]

  6. introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation [syn: naturalized]

Usage examples of "established".

We may, however, omit for the present any consideration of the particular providence, that beforehand decision which accomplishes or holds things in abeyance to some good purpose and gives or withholds in our own regard: when we have established the Universal Providence which we affirm, we can link the secondary with it.

Menstruation may fail to be established in consequence of organic defects, or from some abnormal condition of the blood and nervous system.

His fortunate son, from the first moment of his accession, declaring himself the protector of the church, at length deserved the appellation of the first emperor who publicly professed and established the Christian religion.

And, lest the expense or trouble of a journey to court should discourage suitors, and make them acquiesce in the decision of the inferior judicatures, itinerant judges were afterwards established, who made their circuits throughout the kingdom, and tried all causes that were brought before them.

Pope Gregory the Great, in the sixth century, either borrowing some of the more objectionable features of the purgatory doctrine previously held by the heathen, or else devising the same things himself from a perception of the striking adaptedness of such notions to secure an enviable power to the Church, constructed, established, and gave working efficiency to the dogmatic scheme of purgatory ever since firmly defended by the papal adherents as an integral part of the Roman Catholic system.

And in the event, it has hitherto been found, that, though some sensible inconveniencies arise from the maxim of adhering strictly to law, yet the advantages overbalance them, and should render the English grateful to the memory of their ancestors, who, after repeated contests, at last established that noble, though dangerous principle.

The exposed bone is somewhat decalcified, and adipocere seems firmly established throughout.

By the solemn adjudication of courts, and under the safeguards of law, the fact of guilt is to be established, and the guilty punished.

It is our pride that our townsman, David Davis, was among the ablest of the great court, by whose adjudication renewed vigor was given to the Constitution, and enduring safeguards established for national life and individual liberty.

Also, in a suit to enforce double liability, brought in Rhode Island against a stockholder in a Kansas trust company, the courts of Rhode Island were held to be obligated to extend recognition to the statutes and court decisions of Kansas whereunder it is established that a Kansas judgment recovered by a creditor against the trust company is not only conclusive as to the liability of the corporation but also an adjudication binding each stockholder therein.

Soon they revolutionized against Mexico, and established an independent government of their own, adopting a constitution with slavery, strongly resembling the constitutions of our slave States.

Once a religion is established in a nation the Lord leads that nation according to the precepts and tenets of its own religion, and He has provided that there should be precepts in every religion like those in the Decalog, that God should be worshiped, His name not be profaned, a holy day be observed, that parents be honored, murder, adultery and theft not be committed, and false witness not be spoken.

With a loss of some two hundred men the leading regiments succeeded in reaching Colenso, and the West Surrey, advancing by rushes of fifty yards at a time, had established itself in the station, but a catastrophe had occurred at an earlier hour to the artillery which was supporting it which rendered all further advance impossible.

Duff, a New Zealand anthropologist who has made a special study of adze distributions, claiming that no adzes with butts tanged as an aid in lashing the handles have been established for Western Polynesia, whereas tanged adzes have been found throughout Eastern Polynesia, has argued that this is not in accord with what one would expect from random voyaging.

He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into the hot focus of Welt-Politik, he was drifting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world.