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institutional

institutional

98 4.5
Connected with a large organization like a university, church, or bank
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪnstəˈtuːʃənl/
translation icon : institucional
  • All procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of New Mexico.
  • an institutional review board
  • an institutional review
  • an institutional policy

It's great for GBTC and it's great for institutional access to BTC.

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Examples

  • The survey instrument was approved by the institutional review board at the university.

    Academic text (2015)
  • And I have some institutional knowledge about this.

  • And then I will speak about the Institutional Review Board.

  • I mean, it's pretty much top of the line for institutional use.

  • The research was approved by the researchers' university institutional review board and the school district.

    Academic text (2012)
  • I think it's frankly a terrible waste of institutional effort to play that game.

  • All study procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Arizona.

    Academic text (2013)
  • All materials and procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Bloomsburg University.

    Academic text (2011)
  • This recent market volatility has put a national spotlight on institutional practices by Wall Street firms.

  • The university established new institutional policies to improve student services.

Synonyms

organizational
vsinstitutional
  • US
57 4.4

About how a company or team is arranged and run

is about relation to large formal groups rather than internal arrangement
institutionalized
vsinstitutional
  • US
1 6.5

Part of an official system and accepted as normal in an organization

relates to or involves large formal groups like universities or banks

Antonyms

Preferring to act or think independently and be different

Not part of a formal organization like a hospital or school

How Institutional

bureaucratic
93 6.7
institutional
98 4.5
organizational
  • US
57 4.4
informal
98 3.1

Surface Forms

institutional positive

Morphology

institutional = institution (transparent) = institute + ion + al

Regular adjective formation from 'institution' with '-al', so the meaning 'relating to an institution' is straightforward.

Etymology

Institutional comes from the word institution, which originally meant 'something set up' or 'established' (think of institute). So institutional describes things that belong to a large, established organization like a university, church, or bank.