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establish

verb/əˈstæblɪʃ/

to start a company, organization, system etc.

It takes more than a decade to establish a successful company that can make a difference.

set upstartinitiatefound
word origin — late Middle English (recorded earlier as stablish): from Old French establiss-, lengthened stem of establir, from Latin stabilire ‘make firm’, from stabilis (adjective) ‘stable’