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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.
- Most nurses are groomed and institutionalized to believe that unions are bad and unprofessional (anytime a nurse hears the term unprofessional, it is usually from management in an attempt to control behavior). Nursing Voices Forum Meet other nurses, share your nursing knowledge and experiences
- People who would either forsake government aid if possible, or volunteer their time to create non-state charitable institutions, are liable to be considered suckers.
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- Democratic participation, fair and free elections and effective governance need to be institutionalised and made routine, or non-violent means to resolve political crises could be replaced by remobilisation of militias, with significant risk of violent conflict. Crisis Group
- After the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and 1998, the IMF proposed an institutionalized default program, which it called the sovereign debt restructuring mechanism. Amid Irish Aid, a New Option
- 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.