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Erect Erected Create System Theory Institution Erecting Officials

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If you e____ a system, a theory, or an institution, you create it.If you erect a system, a theory, or an institution, you create it.
Officials have stressed the importance of erecting a solid regional infrastructure to facilitate trade.
He erected a new doctrine of precedent.
A sham legal and organisational structure appears to have been erected solely to keep the debts off the Government's books.
word erect
full-definition
verb
If people erect something such as a building, bridge, or barrier, they build it or create it.
Opposition demonstrators have erected barricades in roads leading to the parliament building.
The building was erected in 1900–1901.
We all unconsciously erect barriers against intimacy.
If you erect a system, a theory, or an institution, you create it.
Officials have stressed the importance of erecting a solid regional infrastructure to facilitate trade.
He erected a new doctrine of precedent.
A sham legal and organisational structure appears to have been erected solely to keep the debts off the Government's books.
adjective
People or things that are erect are straight and upright.
Stand reasonably erect, your arms hanging naturally.
Her head was erect and her back was straight.
...the short, stiff, erect stems of almost bead-like blue flowers.
inflections erectserectingerected
cefr-level C1

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