to institutionalize
- verb
- /ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃənəlaɪz/
- US
- Many of these social movements have also gradually institutionalized themselves in the form of NGOs.
- become institutionalized
- institutionalized recycling
- institutionalized practice
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Watch on YouTubeYou cannot institutionalized love or anything for that matter.
- You cannot institutionalized love or anything for that matter.
- And a lot of that comes down to institutionalizing rebellion.
- There's also the aspect of course, of institutionalizing diversity, which, you know, through rules and laws.
- Exactly because the brand and the product has been institutionalized, it now lives in the romantic repertoire.
- What they end up doing with it is they, they institutionalized things and they, they make things much more advanced and less primitive and barbaric.
Examples
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Much of what was done during the 2014 operation was improvised and will now become institutionalized.
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I personally have no use for large, institutionalized environmental organizations; I think they're more of a problem than a help.
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Afghans continue to face challenges in their effort to institutionalize a process of peaceful political competition.
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For Philadelphia, recycling has been institutionalized for most of the last decade.
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There is a more sophisticated and more institutionalized political practice asserting itself in India.
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As political participation and civil liberties are institutionalized, state support will become less important for movement success.
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Their concern was that the institutionalized pattern of interaction occurred to a greater extent in lower-performing classes.
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Thus, relying on such information may perpetuate institutionalized racism and discrimination.
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The beginnings of such systems were present, but they were not fully institutionalized in a permanent bureaucracy.
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The organization aims to institutionalize equal opportunities within the workplace to ensure fairness for all employees.
Synonyms
To become part of a larger group and take part in its life
To make things the same by using one set of rules
To make something official by following rules, often with a written agreement
To include something in the usual activities of a group
To arrange things or ideas according to a plan
To make something follow rules or standards
To arrange things in a clear, planned order
To give something formal approval from someone in charge
To make something seem like a custom followed for a long time
To make something follow the usual rules or styles used by a group
How Established
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- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
institutionalize = institutional (transparent) = institution + al + ize
The verb is formed by adding '-ize' to 'institutional', giving the straightforward meaning 'to make (something) part of an institution or institutional practice'.
Etymology
The word institutionalize comes from institution, based on a Latin verb that means 'to set up' or 'establish'. Think of an institution as a system or habit that is 'set up' and official, so to institutionalize something is to make it a regular, official part of an organization or society.