Word familynounestablishmentestablisherestablishmentarianismadjectiveestablishedestablishmentarianverbestablish
es·tab·lished /ɪˈstæblɪʃt/ ●●○AWLadjectiveadj [only before noun]
1USE somethingalready in use or existing for a long period of time 早已确立的;早已投入使用的
Competition from established businesses can be formidable.
来自老牌企业的竞争可能会异常激烈。
well-established teaching methods
被广泛采用的教学方法
By 1969 the civil rights movement was already an established fact.
时至1969年,民权运动早已成为既定事实。
Every once in a while, the established order (=people who rule) is overthrown.
统治阶层有时会被推翻。
2KNOW somethingknown to do a particular job well, because you have done it for a long time 资深的
an established professor of French literature
资深的法国文学教授
3.established church/religionespecially British EnglishBrE the official church or religion in a particular country 成为国教的教会/宗教
Examples from the Corpus
established church/religion• Carroll did not choose to keep a lowprofile but spoke up on many issues, often against the officially established religion.• His rebellion began quietly enough in a dispute over whether or not to pay taxes for established religion.• That same light revealed the corruption of the established Church.• During the plague, the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established churchfled from London.• Therefore, it is certainly more comfortable to remain in the security of stableestablished church life.• The representatives from seventeen national parties at the Paris conference were quite plainly non-attenders in the established church of politics.• The only result of clericalopposition was that the established Church once again forfeited its chance to control developments.• Naturally most of the more established churches were embarrassed and angered by the unseemlygoings on.
nCOLLOCATIONS
adverbs
well-established (=existing for a long time and respected or trusted by people)
McCarthy is a well-established and successful author.
newly established (=established very recently)
He is a partner in the newly established company.
nouns
an established fact (=a piece of information that has been tested and shown to be true)
It is an established fact that 1 in 10 undergraduates leave university in their first year.
an established institution (=an official organization that has existed for a long time)
The incoming prime minister was critical of many established government institutions.
established practice (=a particular way of doing something, that is accepted as the best way)
Not allowing patients to eat before surgery is established practice.
the established order (=the people and organizations that have power)
The revolutionaries posed a serious threat to the established order.
established fact• It was studiously careful not to speculatebeyond the established facts.• Over the centuries, it then came to be regarded as established 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.