verb · academic
establish
/ɪˈstæblɪʃ/e·STA·blish
Band 7+task2speaking
to set up or prove something so it is accepted
Examples
“Researchers established a clear link between sleep and memory consolidation.”
“The committee was established in 2018 to oversee environmental policy.”
“It is difficult to establish cause and effect from correlational data.”
Band 8 sentence
“Long-term cohort studies have established a causal relationship between early childhood nutrition and adult cognitive outcomes.”
Collocations
- establish a link
- establish a committee
- be established in
Word family
establishment nounestablished adjective
Common mistakes
establishing (as noun)→establishment
estabilish→establish
Say it for a higher band
5make→6create→7+establish
Synonyms
set up
prove
Easily confused
prove
“Researchers proved that the drug reduced symptoms in all trials.”
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