instituting
- 1Present participle and gerund of institute.
The board is instituting reforms to cut wasteful spending across departments.
Instituting a downtown curfew sparked heated debate among local residents.
Note
One -ing spelling does two jobs. In "is instituting reforms" it is the verb in progress, and in "instituting a curfew sparked debate" it is a noun that still takes a direct object, because the verb behind it is transitive. Beyond founding, it can mean appointing someone or investing a cleric with a benefice. The old sense "to train, instruct" is obsolete, so "instituting a pupil" now sounds like period prose.
instituting is a form of institute
institute, verb: To begin or initiate something, such as a policy or organization; to found. Full entry
- Forms
- instituteinstitutes he/she/itinstituting -ing forminstituted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- institute → instituting: drop the e, add -ing
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