# institutional

Pronunciation: say "in-sti-TYOO-shuh-nuhl" /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuʃənəl/

## Adjective

1. Relating to, typical of, or organized in the manner of an institution such as a school, hospital, or agency.
   - Simple: Relating to a large organization such as a school, hospital, or government office.
   - _The reform aimed to change institutional culture across the entire agency._
   - _Visitors often remark on the institutional atmosphere of the old asylum._
2. Resulting from the customary practices and routines of an institution rather than from any single person.
   - Simple: Coming from the usual ways an organization does things.
   - _Institutional inertia, built up over decades of routine, blocked every attempt at reform._
   - _The discrimination was institutional, arising from long-standing practices rather than individual prejudice._
3. Established or ordained by an official authority.
   - Simple: Set up or ordered by people in charge.
   - _The festival is institutional, established by royal decree centuries ago._
   - _The observance was institutional, ordained by the church's highest authority._
8. Elementary or rudimentary; concerned only with first principles.
   - Simple: Basic and simple, covering only the first ideas.
   - _The treatise offered an institutional introduction, covering only the rudiments of law._
   - _Her institutional knowledge of the subject reached no further than first principles._

## Noun

4. A company or other organization receiving services as a client.
   - Simple: A customer that is a company or group, not a single person.
   - _The brokerage tailored its services to institutionals managing billions in assets._
   - _Each institutional received a customized portfolio review._
5. A person who has been placed in and adapted to life within an institution.
   - Simple: A person who lives in or depends on a care home or similar place.
   - _Released after thirty years, the institutional struggled to cope with everyday choices._
   - _Many institutionals find freedom frightening after a lifetime of fixed schedules._
6. A community where most inhabitants work at an institution rather than in industry or trade, or a resident of such a place.
   - Simple: A town where most people work at one big organization, or a person living there.
   - _The settlement grew into an institutional, every household tied to the hospital's payroll._
   - _Generations of institutionals had served the great asylum on the hill._
7. A person whose sense of self rests on institutionalized values and standards rather than on personal tastes and impulses.
   - Simple: A person who builds their identity on the rules and values of an organization instead of their own likes and feelings.
   - _The classic institutional measures personal worth by the organization's standards alone._
   - _Among institutionals, the line between self and role gradually disappears._
9. In Chile, a senator appointed rather than elected to an eight-year term, whether by the president or by another state body, in a post since abolished.
   - Simple: A senator in Chile who is picked by the president to serve for eight years.
   - _The reform finally abolished the institutional, an unelected fixture of the old constitution._
   - _Critics argued that institutionals weakened the power of elected senators._

## Origin

Formed from "institution" combined with the suffix "-al".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/institutional (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).