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institution definition - finance
A company holding assets for others. Institutions include banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and mutual funds. The term also is used in the trading context to talk about the companies that trade securities in very large volumes.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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