institutional
IPA: ɪnstɪtˈuʃʌnʌɫ
noun
- A client that is an organization rather than an individual.
- (politics) A Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.
- A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.
- An institutionalized person.
- (sociology) An individual whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
- Instituted by authority.
- Elementary; rudimentary.
- Arising from the practice of an institution.
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Examples of "institutional" in Sentences
- Some percentage of your sales is to what I call institutional feeders, schools, hospitals.
- So they have dual personalities when they shoot at each other as a member of the MILF and the other as an Armed Forces of the Philippines, it becomes another layer, which we call an institutional war, Moya said.
- But coincidences of this kind -- which permit imposition of exceptional harm on one group provided the primary purpose of the harm is making money -- are precisely what is meant by the term "institutional racism."
- Ten years since Macpherson published his devastating report about the failings of the Metropolitan police in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence murder, the term institutional racism has been officially laid to rest.
- Mr. Anderson said his lawsuit wouldn't interfere with the criminal prosecution of Mr. Sandusky, because his case is more about illuminating what he called "institutional concealment" at Penn State and Second Mile.
- Mr. Anderson said his suit wouldn't interfere with the prosecution of Mr. Sandusky, because the suit is more about illuminating what he called "institutional concealment" at Penn State and Second Mile than punishing Mr. Sandusky.
- When we went there to do reports on this, we found very clearly that the people were not voting for Hamas for any religious or militant views or reasons, but rather because they had become fed up with what they call the institutional corruption of Fatah and the ineffectiveness of Fatah.
- And third, economic growth and what we call institutional efforts, to help the Palestinians improve their economy and to encourage the current prime minister -- an impressive person, Salaam Fayyad -- who is trying to build from the ground up the institutions of governance that will be able to govern effectively on day one of the Palestinian state.
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