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UK
/ˌɪnstɪtjˈuːʃən/
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[ US /ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən/ ]
NOUN
- an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
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the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
she looked forward to her initiation as an adult
the foundation of a new scientific society - an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
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a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
he had become an institution in the theater
the institution of marriage
the institution of slavery - a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
How To Use institution In A Sentence
- There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making.
- Life itself, without the assistance of colleges and universities, is becoming an advanced institution of learning.
- How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
- The committee submitted guidelines that applied to off-air recording by nonprofit educational institutions.
- Many specialized institutions now equal the university in repute.
- Of those who survive, about another 20% will end up in institutional care who weren't in that before the stroke.
- These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
- What electives can the institution viably offer? Times, Sunday Times
- Education meant the inculcation of truths as dogmas, the institutionalization of habits of obedience, the subjection of the individual to the community.
- When her character (played by Winona Ryder) leaves the psychiatric institution never to return, the film takes a turn toward the tear-jerker.