0 to firmly establish something, especially an idea or a problem, so that it cannot be changed:
1 to establish something firmly so that it cannot be changed:
2 to establish yourself firmly in a position, job, etc. so that it is difficult to remove you:
The company's management and directors have entrenched themselves by changing the voting requirements for expansion of the board.
This is not a process of a large number of competitors joining a system that thereby becomes entrenched.
This was the newer of the two industrial areas, and the labor federations were not as entrenched among the unions there.
And in any case, categorizing the 'unreasonable' as beyond the pale offers no practical guidance to marginalized groups facing entrenched, unreasonable opponents.
It seems to have been fairly entrenched in independent music circles from the mid-1970s on.
A firmly entrenched evolutionary perspective guided the modernization plans of the newly empowered government services.
The onceforeign concepts of managed care, designated medical groups, and health management organizations, considered a distant threat, are now firmly entrenched.
It seems equally impossible, however, for the deeply entrenched historiographical separation of the two states to continue.
Interestingly, the human rights framework within which challenges to such prohibitions have been brought, further entrenches this public/private separation.
