institution

IPA: ɪnstɪtˈuʃʌn

A custom or practice of a society or community.
A long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.
The building or buildings which house such an organization.
(informal) Any long established and respected place or business.
(informal) A person long established in a place, position, or field.
The act of instituting something.
(Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.
(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs, particularly a textbook or system of elements or rules.
(informal) Ellipsis of mental institution. [(derogatory slang) A psychiatric hospital, or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.]

Examples of "institution" in Sentences

The term institution was used by Parsons and Spencer in this sense.
At this point it is important to notify the reader that the term institution in what follows assumes its political context.
This institution is the latest primary school on the island to install its own library, with the help of private donations.
"Any institution that thinks it will always be bailed out when the going gets tough is an inherently dangerous institution.
"Any institution that thinks it will always be bailed out when the going gets tough is an inherently dangerous ¬institution.
He died quietly in the title institution after suffering several massive heart attacks during a violent hostage crisis at a city hotel.
It was only the other day I read in the report of the Consumers League in my own city that a benevolent institution, when found giving out clothing to be made in tenement houses that were not licensed, and taken to task for it, asked the agents of the League to show some way in which the law could be evaded; but it is just as well for that benevolent institution that name and address were wanting, or it might find its funds running short unaccountably.