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institutionally

institutionally

5 6.5
In a way that involves a large organization like a school or government
  • adverb
  • /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃənəli/
translation icon : institucionalmente
  • In fact, up until the fall of 1993, the only institutionally required general education courses were English and political science.
  • institutionally defined
  • institutionally based
  • institutionally established

So they built a system that would contain that, constrained it institutionally, not circumstantially.

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Examples

  • Except for AAHE, all those associations were institutionally based, with the primary membership being institutional leaders.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Instead, academic appointments are increasingly institutionally defined and take different forms.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The citizens of the United Nations are kept institutionally remote from the very organization they established themselves.

    Academic text (1995)
  • But the military is actually doing something institutionally to transform the environment around young adults.

  • I just do not think that is the kind of issue that you can resolve institutionally.

    Academic text (2001)
  • What would encourage the institutionally separated president and Congress to cooperate in the exercise of these shared powers?

    Academic text (2003)
  • For the PPACA's effect on the nation is not merely evolutionary; it is institutionally revolutionary.

    Academic text (2017)
  • States usually assign meanings to social situations on the basis of institutionally defined roles.

    Academic text (1998)
  • In this study, I examine how deforestation is being defined institutionally in the Maya Biosphere Reserve.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The committee operates institutionally to ensure that all rules are followed by every member.

How Institutional

bureaucratically
  • Formal
1 7.4
institutionally
5 6.5
formally
  • Formal
149 3.7
informally
9 3.4

Surface Forms

institutionally positive

Morphology

institutionally = institutional (transparent) = institution + al + ly

Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'institutional', producing a straightforward adverbial sense.

Etymology

Institutionally comes from institution, a word that originally meant something 'set up' or officially created, and the ending -ally makes it mean 'in the way of' that organization or system. So, to act institutionally is to act 'by' or 'in the way an institution does'.