Establishment

establishment English Proper noun The + the Any particular establishment (ruling class) that is construed as the sole one within a given context (such as a specific country). en By the late 1780s, it was clear that many French had had it with the Establishment. en 2025-01-28 Krugman Paul Paul Krugman Departing the New York Times. I left to stay true to my byline The Contrarian https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260226163027/https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times 26 February 2026 German Etymology 19th century, de en establishment 1. de Etablissement. Pronunciation de /eˈstɛ.blɪʃ.mənt/ /ɛsˈtɛ-/ /-mɛnt/ de De-Establishment2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-Establishment.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun n,,s[rare] establishment long-standing elite or authority group de Wer zweimal mit derselben pennt, gehört schon zum Establishment. Sleeping with the same woman twice already makes you a member of the establishment. (humorous slogan of the Kommune 1 subversive left-wing community movement of the 1960s) Declension n,,s