institutions
- 1Plural of institution.
Universities and museums are public institutions funded partly by the government.
Trust in major financial institutions fell sharply after the crisis.
Note
A regular plural that carries every countable meaning of the singular at once, so context has to do the sorting. Beside public or financial, it means established organizations; beside talk of custom and tradition, it means entrenched practices of a society. The informal use for places of confinement, shortened from mental institution, carries into the plural too: grew up in institutions points there, not to universities.
institutions is a form of institution
institution, noun: An established organization founded for a particular purpose, especially in education, finance, public service, or charity. Full entry
- Forms
- institutioninstitutions plural
- Spelling
- institution → institutions: add -s
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