institutional

UK/ˌɪn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃə.nəl/US/ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/

adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,715 of 15,258mostly written

Institutional means belonging to a large established organisation. Institutional investors, institutional food, institutional racism.

It has two tones: institutional investors is neutral, and institutional anything else is usually a complaint about the character a place takes on. Institutional racism names a pattern built into how a body works rather than the views of its staff.

Definitions of institutional

1adjectiveinstitutionalBelonging to a large established organisation.C1
“The report blamed institutional failures, not individual staff, for the tragedy.”

institutional is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin
institūtiō
Old French
institution
Middle English
institucioun
English
institution
English, today
institutional

Built from

instituō · Latin — to set up
in- · Latin — in, on
statuō · Latin — to set up, establish

From institution + -al. institution comes from Middle English institucioun, from Old French institution, from Latin institūtiō, from instituō (“to set up”), from in- (“in, on”) + statuō (“to set up, establish”). Equivalent to institute + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

institutional in the wild

The practice of institutional racism is manifested as racial discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, healthcare, education and political representation.
Institutional racism
The term institutional racism was coined by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V.
Institutional racism
An institutional investor is an entity that pools money to purchase securities, real property, and other investment assets or originate loans.
Institutional investor
The potential of institutional investors in infrastructure markets is increasingly noted after the financial crises in the early twenty-first century.
Institutional investor
An institutional repository might also include other digital assets generated by academics, such as datasets, administrative documents, course notes, learning objects, academic posters or conference proceedings.
Institutional repository

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Related words

the statuō family

statue institution substitute

institutional — used about once every 10,067 pages · #11,715 · point at the bar for the others

institute

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