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Establishment en · PROPN

Meanings

1. Any particular establishment (ruling class) that is construed as the sole one within a given context (such as a specific country).
   • Maybe there was a time when readers would sit still for sober, dull opinion pieces — history’s most boring headline, “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” was the title of a Times op-ed — because they were seen as representing the views of The Establishment. And I have the feeling that Times management still thinks it’s living in that world. But in today’s wide-open information (and misinformation) environment, boring writing just vanishes without a trace. 2025 January 28, Paul Krugman, “Departing the New York Times. I left to stay true to my byline”, in The Contrarian:
   • By the late 1780s, it was clear that many French had had it with the Establishment.