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/ˌɪnstɪtjˈuːʃənəl/
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[ US /ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or constituting or involving an institution
institutional policy -
organized as or forming an institution
institutional religion
How To Use institutional In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- It’s a natural and useful weapon for use against power, especially against a certain kind of bureaucratized and institutionalized hierarchy — like a government school, and like the military. Work to rule in middle school
- As if there is any alternative to "institutionalised" celibacy in a religious institution besides married and/or unchaste priests. . . The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
- But let's make sure that we're dealing with just Jesus and not a bunch of institutionalized add-ons that try to replace the teachings of Jesus with idol worship and public piosity. Is America a Christian Nation?
- Other women psychologists studied infant-mother attachment, memory and the brain, deinstitutionalized psychiatric patients, and developmental psychology.
- Let’s move to a more recent example of what I can only call institutionalised racism in American reporting of Iraq I have to thank reader Andrew Gorman for this gem, a January Associated Press report about the killing of an Iraqi prisoner under interrogation by US Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jnr. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Incomprehensible Demoralization
- Of those who survive, about another 20% will end up in institutional care who weren't in that before the stroke.
- Education meant the inculcation of truths as dogmas, the institutionalization of habits of obedience, the subjection of the individual to the community.