Skip to content
OneKitly

establishing

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ɪˈstæblɪʃɪŋ//

The act by which something is established; establishment.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of establishpresent participle and gerund of establish

    For Marx, it is true, the collapse of capitalism and the communist millennium were 'necessary' in a different sense from that in which capitalism had, as he believed, evolved from feudalism. No one, at the time, had set himself the aim of 'establishing capitalism'.

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is established; establishment.

    This course consists of the overturnings and establishings of the various successive empires under which the Church of Christ, both in its Jewish and Christian state, should exist […]

Forms

plural
establishings
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).