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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization; creation |
| Synonyms: | enactment, endowment, formation, formulation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, setting up |
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expert, animate or inanimate |
| Synonyms: | CEO, arbiter, aristocrat, bible, big cheese, big shot, big wig, boss, brains, brass, buff*, city hall, connoisseur, czar, egghead, establishment*, exec, executive, expert, feds, front office, governor, guru, ivory dome, judge, kingfish, kingpin, law*, power elite, pro, professional, professor, pundit, scholar, specialist, textbook, top brass, top dog, top hand, upstairs, veteran, virtuoso, whiz, wizard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | company, enterprise |
| Synonyms: | Mom and Pop, cartel, concern, corporation, establishment, factory, firm, fly-by-night operation, house, institution, market, megacorp, mill, monopoly, organization, outfit, partnership, setup, shoestring operation, shop, store, syndicate, trust, venture |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | colonization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | settlement of area |
| Synonyms: | clearing, establishment, expanding, expansion, founding, immigration, migration, opening up, peopling, pioneering, populating, settlement, settling, squatting, transplanting |
| Main Entry: | company |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business concern |
| Synonyms: | association, business, concern, corporation, enterprise, establishment, firm, house, megacorp, multinational, outfit, partnership, syndicate |
| 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, megacorp, mission, multinational, occupation, organization, outfit, shooting match, task, thing, transaction, worry, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, formulation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, laying down, making, nascency, nativity, origination, procreation, production, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
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