institutional
Americanadjective
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of or relating to organized establishments, foundations, societies, or the like, or to the buildings they occupy.
The association offers an institutional membership discount to members of affiliated groups.
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of the nature of an established organization or institution.
institutional bureaucracy.
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relating to or noting a policy, practice, or belief system that has been established as normative or customary throughout an institution or society, particularly as perpetuated in institutions of a public character, as schools, courts, or legislative bodies: institutional sexism in academia;
institutional racism in the criminal justice system;
institutional sexism in academia;
institutional prejudice against members of the gay community.
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characterized by the blandness, drabness, uniformity, and lack of individualized attention attributed to large institutions that serve many people.
institutional food.
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(of advertising) having as the primary object the establishment of goodwill and a favorable reputation rather than the immediate sale of the product.
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relating to established principles or institutes, especially of jurisprudence.
adjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of institutions
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dull, routine, and uniform
institutional meals
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relating to principles or institutes, esp of law
Other Word Forms
- anti-institutional adjective
- anti-institutionally adverb
- institutionally adverb
- interinstitutional adjective
- interinstitutionally adverb
- noninstitutional adjective
- noninstitutionally adverb
- uninstitutional adjective
- uninstitutionally adverb
Etymology
Origin of institutional
First recorded in 1610–20; institution + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Whatever institutional knowledge might have been built up over the last two decades is gone.
From Salon
Such institutional questions are the center of Mr. Turley’s closing section.
February saw a surge in both trading activity, which often accompanies comes as a price swing exhausts itself, and institutional repositioning.
From Barron's
His career included two decades in the institutional investment unit of Wells Fargo, and another five at the Leuthold Group.
From Barron's
The future of private investing is not about turning every investor into an institutional allocator.
From MarketWatch
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