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Institutional
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- 1 Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
"Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance."
- 2 Instituted by authority.
"institutional ruling"
- 3 Elementary; rudimentary.
- 4 Arising from the practice of an institution.
"There must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism and its nature before it can be addressed"
- 1 organized as or forming an institution wordnet
- 2 characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative wordnet
- 3 relating to or constituting or involving an institution wordnet
- 1 A client that is an organization rather than an individual.
"Few public relations people have learned to communicate effectively with the funds, meet their needs, and maintain a balance between institutionals and individual round lot holders."
- 2 A Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.
"The institutionals include four former senior military commanders, one from each of the four branches of the armed forces, selected by the National security Council (Cosena); two former Supreme Court judges and one former comptroller-general, selected by the Supreme Court; and one former interior minister and a former university rector, selected by the president."
- 3 A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.
"In any time period, Marketing Centers and Institutionals will have a higher per capita index of airline passengers than either Industrial or Balanced communities."
- 4 An institutionalized person.
"And I hope you can work it out where 'institutionals' can have rights too."
- 5 A person whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.
"If vocational counseling to help the individual find his peculiar niche has elements of the impulse conception of self, the idea that a person can make of himself what he will, that one chooses a task and then works at it, is the view of institutionals."
Etymology
From institution + -al.
From institution + -al.
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