institutionin‧sti‧tu‧tion /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃən $ -ˈtuː-/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun 
the government and other political institutions powerful institutions such as world banks the Institution of Electrical Engineers► see thesaurus at organization2[countable] an important system of organization in society that has existed for a long time: social institutions such as the family and religionthe institution of marriage/monarchy etc The scandal threatened to undermine the institution of the presidency.3[countable] a building that people are sent to when they need to be looked after, for example old people or children with no parents – often used to show disapproval: I was determined not to put my mother in an institution. a mental institution (=for the mentally ill)4[uncountable] when something is started or introduced, especially something relating to the law or politicsinstitution of the institution of divorce proceedings5be an institution if a person, place, event etc is an institution, they have been an important part of a place for a very long time – often used humorously: The British pub isn’t just somewhere to drink – it’s an institution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a financial institution
- A major study of women and heart disease is being carried out by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.
- Children in these institutions do not receive good care because the government cannot afford it.
- Church leaders are meeting this week to discuss ways of preserving the institution of marriage.
- the institution of marriage
- The change in the law has been welcomed by banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions.
- Tokyo University is the most important educational institution in Japan.
- Trading in ivory had become an institution in this part of Africa.
THESAURUS
a group of people, companies, or countries, which is set up for a particular purpose: · Greenpeace is an international organization that protects the environment.· the World Health Organization
a large important organization such as a bank, church, or university: · The University is an important academic institution.· financial institutions such as banks
an organization for people in a particular profession, sport, or activity, which officially represents its members – often used in names: · I met a representative of the National Association of Teachers.· the Football Association
an organization of people with the same political aims which you can vote for in elections: · Which political party do you support?· He voted for the Republican Party’s candidate.
an important group of people who make the rules and advise people about what should be allowed: · the sport’s governing body· The government has set up an advisory body.
an organization for people who share an interest, for example a sport: · We belong to a tennis club.· I joined the university film society.
an organization formed by workers in order to protect their rights: · The union ordered its members out on strike.
an organization which collects money to help people who are poor, sick etc and does not make any profit for itself: · She has raised a lot of money for local charities.
British English disapproving an organization set up by the government, which has official power but whose members have not been elected: · the amount of money that is wasted on government quangos
Longman Language Activatora hospital for people who are mentally ill · Shirley spent most of her adult life in a mental hospital.· At the age of 19 Greg had a nervous breakdown and had to be admitted to a mental hospital.commit somebody to a mental hospital · Knapman was committed to a mental hospital in August.
a hospital for mentally ill people. Psychiatric hospital is more technical than mental hospital: · Humphrey is in a state psychiatric hospital after being convicted of beating his grandmother.· The judge will decide whether Barry will be sent to prison or a psychiatric hospital.
also institution formal a hospital for mentally ill people - use this especially when you do not think this is a good place for someone to be treated: · Sally spent several years in an institution.· Psychiatrists argue that closing down mental institutions will lead to more homeless people on our streets.
a large well organized group of people who work together also organisation British a large group of people who work together in business, politics, education, sport etc: · Greenpeace is an international organization that works to protect the environment.· one of Europe's leading human rights organizations· Most big organizations employ their own legal experts.· the World Health Organization
an organization that does educational, scientific, or financial work, especially a large and important organization that has existed for a long time: financial/educational/medical institution: · The change in the law has been welcomed by banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions.· A major study of women and heart disease is being carried out by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.
an educational, scientific, or professional organization: · My colleague is a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.· the National Cancer Institute· The work was carried out by the Silsoe Research Institute in Bedfordshire.
a tradition a belief, custom, or way of doing something that has existed for a very long time in a particular country or among a particular group of people: · A lot of the old traditions are dying out.· Every village has its own traditions.tradition of: · The region has a tradition of winemaking which goes back to Roman times.tradition that: · It's still the tradition here that the eldest son inherits all the family's money and land.family tradition: · We always go for a long walk on Christmas morning - it's a family tradition.
belonging to the traditions of a country or group of people - use this about music, food, clothes, customs etc: · A group of children will perform traditional dances.traditional African/French/English etc: · The dancers were wearing traditional African costume.· The restaurant offers a wide range of traditional French food.it is traditional to do something: · In the US it is traditional to dress up in costumes on Halloween.
a way of behaving that has existed for a long time among a group of people, and is considered normal or polite - use this especially to talk about other countries or other times: · Sadly, a lot of the old customs are now dying out.custom of: · The custom of sending birthday cards began in the 19th century.it is the custom (for somebody) to do something: · It is the custom in Japan to take your shoes off when you go into someone's house.· In those days it was the custom for farmers to give part of their crop to the lord of the manor.
something that is customary is considered normal or polite because it is the way it is usually done by a group of people: · The man at the hotel welcomed us with the customary greeting.it is customary (for somebody) to do something: · It is customary for the man to propose to the woman.
a custom, belief or way of doing something that has become established and accepted as part of normal life among a particular group of people: · Trading in ivory had become an institution in this part of Africa.institution of: · Church leaders are meeting this week to discuss ways of preserving the institution of marriage.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the government and other political institutions social institutions such as the family and religion The scandal threatened to undermine the institution of the presidency. a mental institution (=for the mentally ill)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES venerable financial institutionsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
the government and other political institutions social institutions such as the family and religion The scandal threatened to undermine the institution of the presidency. a mental institution (=for the mentally ill) (=a prison)
(=an official organization that has existed for a long time)· The incoming prime minister was critical of many established government institutions.
venerable financial institutions· He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources.· None the less the connections with academic scholars and institutions were essential to programs at Hull House.· There is a hierarchy of academic institutions that is founded much more on their social status than on their academic reputation.· Virtually every academic institution, it seemed, wanted a piece of the pie.· The University of Birmingham will be the first academic institution in Britain to offer a degree course in golf.· Virtually all of them see their academic institutions as complex social worlds with competing pressures and multiple tasks and goals.· Our academic institutions help to maintain a flow of the kind of cultural capital on which our wider social institutions are based.· Because fraternities are privately owned and run, they are for the most part beyond the jurisdiction of academic institutions.
· It is a city more in tune with outdoor recreation than cultural institutions, but it rains there.· That study is expected to document the role of cultural institutions in creating employment and attracting businesses to New York City.· Until leasing prospects improve, property owners should donate the space to nonprofit groups and cultural institutions.· Her style of leadership has angered both political parties and the cultural institutions with which she deals.· Family formation and family building patterns are reflections of various socio-economic and cultural institutions, traditions and conditions of development.· It is a cultural institution, no less important than the Hermitage or the Bolshoi Theatre.
· After Franco's death at the end of 1975, the overwhelming political preoccupation was the creation of new democratic institutions.· Tolerance for democracy must be cultivated to reinforce our democratic institutions.· Pateman also believes political obligation can not be given expression in the liberal democratic institutions.· Prussia, like Britain, had a relatively long period of effective, legitimate government before the introduction of democratic institutions.· Finally, Chapter 8 examines the comparative work on democratic institutions and democratic performance.· Clearly the Community is not a democratic institution.· The subject orientation in political systems that have developed democratic institutions is likely to be affective and normative rather than cognitive.
· If the leadership of educational institutions is to be effective then a number of fundamental changes are needed.· Those educational institutions that do not do so may be the subject of lawsuits.· Near also aims to provide comprehensive information about any attacks on academics and educational institutions around the world.· They also may become superintendent of a school system or president of an educational institution.· Priests and laymen of all three religions organized educational institutions and missionary propaganda.· It is the only educational institution in the world that teaches aesthetic appreciation primarily through an objective method of investigation.· On Jan. 18, educational institutions were closed for the winter holiday a week early.· The number of educational institutions does not meet the acute needs of the region.
· We shall deal in turn with financial institutions and financial markets.· The debt will be funded through a syndicate of New Zealand and overseas financial institutions.· Credit rationing is unlikely to apply to all financial institutions.· Companies must work with financial institutions to boost their ability to deal on a global basis.· Profitability is the major aim of banks and most other financial institutions.· Besides supervising financial services, financial managers in financial institutions may advise individuals and businesses on financial planning.· Customers may be forced to borrow from inefficient banks or other financial institutions, probably charging higher interest rates.· The buyers of these claims are often the financial institutions, who buy them in order to hold them as assets.
· A call for collaboration between the four Thames regions and higher education institutions is made.· More than eighty higher education institutions now participate in this scheme.· This is the model which is most appropriate for evaluation activities within higher education institutions.· The 55 students were studying at 26 different higher education institutions.· Moneyfacts, the savings and loan information group, selects the following best buys from high street institutions.· The work tends to be geared towards managers in higher education institutions.· Knowledge elites and technical elites are now emerging from our higher education institutions.· The North has a positive disproportion of higher education institutions, and so the intellectual power of centres of research.
· Much of the expansion in solar energy has been funded with loans from international lending institutions.· The budget allocates $ 19. 45 billion to State Department operations, foreign aid, peacekeeping and international lending institutions.· This would involve the government in thinking about the need for new international institutions to oversee such a convention.· They were also expected to meet in Sarajevo with officials from international lending institutions and local government officials.· Their proffered remedy, accordingly, was to reform both international institutions and domestic political structures.· Though more enterprising than the norm, such guests are increasingly frequent visitors to the World Bank and other international institutions.· But it has not sought to gain the backing of an official international financial institution.· Many of us oppose not just these policies and the international institutions that enforce them.
· The integration of the specialist colleges of art into larger institutions like polytechnics also aroused apprehensions which added fuel to the flames.· He transformed the Midland from a successful regional bank into one of the country's largest institutions.· Some of the larger institutions have begun to explore new approaches.· The increasing acquisition of land by large institutions reduces the number of holdings.· Next, we have Walter impounded in a large mental institution with other inmates, played by real mentally handicapped people.
· There were also changes in the social and political structure that were not accommodated in existing local government institutions.· Ohio has restructured its community college system so that no resident lives more than twenty minutes away from a local institution.· But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.· Stop in and say good-bye to another local institution.· The university and other local research institutions have been a breeding ground for many of the new companies.· Particularist feeling in the duchy of Aosta was hallowed by centuries of tradition and grounded in a firm foundation of local institutions.· They became increasingly outspoken in denouncing noble domination of local government institutions, and the zemstvo taxes they had to pay.· Rebuilding state and local public institutions is a long, complex business.
· The church for its part acted as an administrative agency of colonial expansion and a major institution of social control.· We recognize and respect the family as the major investment institution that it is. 2.· But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future.· First, throughout history these major institutions were the primary sources of human values.· Already 70 major financial institutions and several multinational manufacturing companies have established fund management arms there.· In the meantime, major institutions were also granted the power to award their own degrees.· The problem was they now wanted their languages accepted within a major social institution.· There is no evidence that people had any more influence on the policies of major institutions.
· Recently escaped from the state mental institution.· Thornton also stars as a mildly retarded man who returns to his hometown after 25 years in a mental institution.· Subsequent investigation showed that Wingate had been interned in various mental institutions for the past seven years of his life.· What movie do Brad Pitt and Willis watch in the mental institution?· Next, we have Walter impounded in a large mental institution with other inmates, played by real mentally handicapped people.· Crazy Rita is in a mental institution.· The same goes for mental institutions and so forth.
· In short, the ration book would have become a national institution like the council house.· Lobbying for government interest has meant the centralization of the process of decision-making in science in existing national policy-making institutions.· The department has well-equipped laboratory facilities and houses the most advanced parallel computers as well as conducting research at national and international institutions.· The interaction of local government with national institutions and central government will be considered in Chapters 9 and 10.· The Labour Court, a supposedly independent party, with national institution credentials, has delivered a knockout recommendation on Bank Assistants.· The museum's own commercial activities, always criticised as unsuitable for a prominent national institution, have not been very effective.· It is approved by the leading national institutions and organisations.· The government said that it was reorganizing and restoring morale in national anti-drug institutions.
· The Midlands was the workshop of the world and his new institution became its banker.· This would involve the government in thinking about the need for new international institutions to oversee such a convention.· Yet the trust was a new legal institution, developed only in Augustus' reign.· In another group of cases the courts grappled somewhat variously with a new institution.· Rather than create a new institution, is it not more feasible to improve our existing one, the police?· They had established new institutions, new parties, soviets, and unions.· Begun in 1679, the new institution was opened on 21 May 1683.· Any new institutions which may be established will, no doubt, be unique to particular situations and objectives.
· The effect of this, of course, is to shift the shortage of liquidity to other institutions, here the discount houses.· As with other institutions in the Third World education has been heavily influenced by colonialism.· Some assets, such as money lent at call to other financial institutions, are highly liquid.· This would then stimulate other institutions to change their rates too, in order for them to remain competitive with the clearing banks.· I think this participation is unique; so many other institutions lack this.· Frequently Ruth wondered why he hadn't ended up in borstal or some other institution.· A number of other institutions have recently applied for corporate membership.
· Class interests are often regarded as playing a major role in the way political institutions develop.· The United States' political institutions were in suspended animation.· Can the Third World politically challenge the statusquo or are its political institutions similarly under-developed?· Citizens are not permitted to question the political institutions, procedures, or value allocations of an authoritarian regime.· Perhaps we had best ask ourselves why our political institutions function as they do.· If the churches are losing membership and income offerings, political institutions have suffered an even greater loss of confidence.· Religious, educational and political institutions all play a part in the process of socialization and social control.· But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not, happily, any longer felt to be sufficient.
· The family itself is a self-contained, almost private, institution - a world to itself.· Technicians will be employed to develop educational and training materials for programs at all levels in public and private educational institutions.· HENLEY-NEDERLAND Henley-Nederland is an independent, private institution and a recognised educational establishment.· Oglethorpe was still a conservative, private institution ruled by those who were determined to keep it that way.· Professional staff and institutional workers are exploited whether in government or private institutions.· One advantage often cited is the choice of courses offered by private institutions and the individual attention that professors lavish on students.· It is not insignificant that private economic institutions rarely take Western political institutions as their model for decision-making.· For this reason alone, it is not very popular with private state-sector research institutions.
· More generally, the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions.· Unlike City College, very few of these public institutions practiced selective admissions policies.· In 1989, a government decree banned the creation of any new posts in public sector institutions and companies.· Another argument for including cameras is that our public institutions must learn to accommodate them-selves to new technologies.· With increasing, incompetent social engineering in schools and other public institutions?· An increasing number of public institutions have attempted to do so, using a private sector discipline known as strategic planning.· Other public institutions were put to the sword elsewhere.· And yet traditional public institutions still offer one-size-fits-all services.
· In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament.· Bishop Drausin founded several religious institutions, including a chapel for nuns who had taken ill and a monastery at Rethondes.· But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not, happily, any longer felt to be sufficient.· It comes as President Bush advances a plan to increase the involvement of religious institutions in solving social problems.· The final obstacle was a disagreement between Shas and Mafdal over the distribution of funds to their client religious institutions.· It is also true that he accorded certain privileges to the Roman Church, as well as to other religious institutions.· Here, they drew on Hegel's account of religious doctrines and institutions as symbolic objectifications of that spirit.
· Here we need to rely on our social scientific knowledge about our own legal and social institutions.· As a social institution, marriage transcends all individuals.· The major functions of social institutions are those which help to meet the functional prerequisites of society.· They put more social and economic institutions into motion.· Donating blood was an example of a social institution that embodied non-selfish actions by individuals without demeaning the recipient.· Any careful cost-benefit analysis will show that every social practice and institution has limitations and presents difficulties as well as opportunities.· In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history.· Language is a social institution of a kind; and self-evidently it is open to all sorts of change.
· Campsfield House, a former young offenders' institution has been refurbished for the Immigration Service.· Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.· Dines is already serving thirty months at a young offenders' institution for robbery.· So far, he's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution.· There are at present opportunities to undertake agricultural and horticultural work in the open air at 23 young offender institutions.· Judge William Hannah sentenced Elsdon to 21 months and Cook to 19 months, both in a young offenders' institution.· The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.· They say the centre, to be based at a former young offenders institution, will treat refugees as criminals.
NOUN· On the other hand, there were grave limitations in using existing adult education institutions for radical education and action.· A call for collaboration between the four Thames regions and higher education institutions is made.· More than eighty higher education institutions now participate in this scheme.· In its second phase, a number of the techniques will be tested within a selected number of Higher Education institutions.· This is the model which is most appropriate for evaluation activities within higher education institutions.· Anyone with experience of floppy disks and education institutions will realise the problems inherent in this scheme.· The 55 students were studying at 26 different higher education institutions.· The work tends to be geared towards managers in higher education institutions.
· This is normal procedure inmost research institutions.· They recognize that co-operation between industry and research institutions is beneficial in raising productivity and enhancing competitiveness.· It is rapidly becoming one of those elite research institutions some academics are looking for to improve the quality of research.· His sights also are set on putting Clark Atlanta University on the global map as a research institution.· The objective is to re-position the University as a strong teaching and research institution.· Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.· The university and other local research institutions have been a breeding ground for many of the new companies.· These networks connect universities and research institutions at data transmission speeds ranging from 64 kilobits per second to 2 megabits per second.
· Should they necessarily be restricted to electoral variations, or even to activity around state institutions such as local government?· This is a private hospital, not a state institution, and your sister committed you with-out any stipulations as to time.· Yield-enhancing innovations are usually the only ones available through the network of state institutions.· There was no point in being a mere political reformer intent on changing laws and state institutions to make social conditions better.· But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.· Clergy have a prime role in setting up schools and a favoured position of direct relationships with the appropriate state institutions.· The military first came to power in 1962 and abolished all state institutions in 1988.
VERB· Rather than create a new institution, is it not more feasible to improve our existing one, the police?· So perhaps another way to foster a more sustainable gay culture would be to create institutions that promote intergenerational interaction.· An appropriate ranking is achieved by creating two sets of institutions.· Modern selfhood is created and regulated by institutions, child-rearing, and ongoing socialization that enforce the modern order.· By the end of the century, architects, accountants and engineers had all created their own professional institutions.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1[countable] a large organization that has a particular kind of work or purposefinancial/educational/research etc institution- The Sea Dolphin Café is not just a restaurant; it's an institution.
- Cattle stealing was an institution which provided benefits to different groups.
- Punch is an institution as it will probably be so remembered.
- The biggest things in the normative order are institutions.
- The results of such changes are institutions which concentrate very largely on advanced vocational and general courses.
- The Salvation Army is an institution that performs good works, and it is entitled to its views of homosexuality.
- Think-tanks, sitting uneasily half-way between government and universities, are institutions that embody this ambiguity.
- Until this month, they were an institution, just like the White House.
- What Brown inherited when he became speaker in December 1980 was an institution well down the road toward gridlock.
the government and other political institutions powerful institutions such as world banks the Institution of Electrical Engineers► see thesaurus at organization2[countable] an important system of organization in society that has existed for a long time: social institutions such as the family and religionthe institution of marriage/monarchy etc The scandal threatened to undermine the institution of the presidency.3[countable] a building that people are sent to when they need to be looked after, for example old people or children with no parents – often used to show disapproval: I was determined not to put my mother in an institution. a mental institution (=for the mentally ill)4[uncountable] when something is started or introduced, especially something relating to the law or politicsinstitution of the institution of divorce proceedings5be an institution if a person, place, event etc is an institution, they have been an important part of a place for a very long time – often used humorously: The British pub isn’t just somewhere to drink – it’s an institution.