All 12 Uses
establish
in
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(Edited)
- In practice, however, it meant that Swedish companies would get state subventions for going in and establishing themselves as part owners in companies in Eastern European countries.
Chpt 1.1establishing = setting up
- He presented a plan, seemingly backed by interests in Poland, which aimed at establishing an industry for the manufacture of packaging for foodstuffs.
Chpt 1.1establishing = creating
- Now Palmgren was gone, and another tie to established society had been severed.
Chpt 2.9established = set with a good reputation
- Despite the fact that the war was getting closer, and several bombing raids were carried out against Hamburg during the time I was there, the people seemed to think it was mostly a temporary annoyance—that soon there would be peace and Hitler would establish his Neuropa.
Chpt 2.9establish = create
- She was simply not very good at establishing contact with other people.
Chpt 2.12establishing = creating
- All four had established lives for themselves with a boyfriend or girlfriend; they all had jobs, places to live, and Co-op debit cards.
Chpt 2.13 *established = created
- It was a two-storey wooden building that housed a video store and Sundström's Haberdashery, established in 1932 according to a plaque on the front door.
Chpt 3.16established = founded (started)
- This latter is an expression that establishes the sufficiency of Scripture among literal believers.
Chpt 3.22establishes = proves
- These two sentences establish fairly unequivocally what he was alluding to.
Chpt 3.22establish = demonstrate
- She told him what she had found in the company's archives the day before and how she had established a possible link between Martin's father and the murders of at least seven women.
Chpt 4.25established = found
- So Irene Nesser returned to the Matterhorn Hotel, where she spent an hour hanging around to establish her presence.
Chpt 4.29 *establish = prove
- It was the day before Christmas Eve when Blomkvist, almost by chance, happened to read an article in the Financial Times summing up the findings of the international banking commission that had been established in all haste to scrutinise the collapse of the Wennerström empire.
Chpt Epil.established = created
Definitions:
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(1)
(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2)
(establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)