institutional
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- adjective
- /ˌɪnstəˈtuːʃənl/
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institucional
- After the next corner, the school appeared, its dingy institutional brick drab but unsoftened by time.
- institutional care
- institutional setting
- institutional form
Examples
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The student's dorm room was furnished with institutional furniture that felt bland and uninviting.
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So as time goes on, we're going to see something like a quadrillion dollars increasingly managed by institutional investors.
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The student score is not the product of individual failure but of institutional failure.
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And then you have just inadequate institutional response for big reasons.
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But it's a center defined less by style than by institutional considerations.
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The status quo is a complete institutional mess.
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The resource curse describes the effect of resource abundance on institutional development in countries where institutions are already weak.
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Some theorists maintain that mission statements drive strategic planning, while others claim they merely reflect institutional reality.
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In numerous areas, it is pursuing strategies that conflict with existing norms, rules, and institutional arrangements.
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World opinion may not be as forgiving as in the past as institutional shortcomings increasingly come to light.
Academic text (1993)
Antonyms
How Institutional
Surface Forms
Morphology
institutional = institution (semi-transparent) = institute + ion + al
Regular adjective formation from 'institution' with '-al', even though this particular sense is a semantic extension.
Etymology
Institutional can also mean 'uniform' or 'dull' because big institutions are 'set up' with fixed rules and the same ways of doing things. A helpful way to remember this is that when something is very regular or plain, it often feels 'institutional' because it follows long-established rules and styles.