单词 | institutional |
释义 | institutional (once / 2681 pages) adj Something institutional is what you'd expect from a big entity like a college or corporation, such as the institutional cinder-block dorm room walls or the institutional policy of giving employees 10 sick days per year. Accent the third syllable in institutional: "in-stih-TOO-shun-ul." The word institutional can be used to describe something related to an organization or a corporation, like institutional reform or institutional policies. Something that's institutional is often thought of as bland or boring, like the institutional food served to hospital patients. Institutional things often share, for better or worse, a certain sameness. WORD FAMILYinstitutional: institutionally, noninstitutional+/institute: instituted, institutes, instituting, institution/institution: institutional, institutionalise, institutionalize, institutions/institutionalise: institutionalised/institutionalised: noninstitutionalised/institutionalize: institutionalized, institutionalizes, institutionalizing/institutionalized: noninstitutionalized USAGE EXAMPLESBut how about the more insidious institutional prejudice? Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Years of violence, civil war and assassinations ensued before the country stabilized under an “institutional” revolutionary party, which grew progressively more hierarchical and autocratic. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) “It was an institutional conspiracy,” said the acting director general of Russia’s national antidoping agency. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj relating to or constituting or involving an institution institutional policy 2adj organized as or forming an institution institutional religion Syn|Ant institutionalised, institutionalized given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system uninterestingcharacteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative noninstitutional not institutional |
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